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LETTERS TO CRISTINA: REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE AND WORK by Paulo Freire.
New York: Routledge, 1996. 256 pp. $16.95 (paper).
In Letters to Cristina, Paulo Freire guides educators through a genealogical re-tracing of his intellectual restlessness, curiosity, and revolutionary spirit. In his letters to his niece, Cristina, he sets in motion an irreversible process of disquieting that compels us to see ourselves as historical agents engaged in "the search for a voice - and the rebelliousness that must become more critically revolutionary" (p. 87). As Freire says, "For me to return to my distant childhood is a necessary act of curiosity" (p. 13).
Through his Letters, Freire does not merely imagine a world where education is an act of freedom, he shares with us a myriad of contradictions with which an educator of action must necessarily and tirelessly grapple. By revisiting his childhood, Freire provides us with an intimate portrait of the organic growth...