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Mentoring the Mentor: a critical dialogue with Paulo Freire PAULO FREIRE, with JAMES W. FRASER, DONALD MACEDO, TANYA MCKINNNON & WILLIAM T. STOKES (Eds), 1997 New York, Peter Lang $29.95 paperback
Paulo Freire died on 2 May 1997, so the final chapter of this book may well turn out to be one of the last pieces he wrote for publication. Freire has had an enormous influence on educational debates globally, but particularly in those countries, of which South Africa is one, where education has played a significant role in a liberation struggle against a clearly identifiable oppressor. In this book 16 writers discuss various themes of Freire's work and then Freire responds to...