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Zusatztext A Voice for Maria Favela offers a concrete and inspiring example of how to overcome prejudices over low class community of students: it shows the political and aesthetical educational life that emerges when an educator does not underestimate the creative power of any human being. Informationen zum Autor Antonio Leal is a Brazilian educator and educational theorist. Alexis Gibbs (Translator) is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies and Liberal Arts at the University of Winchester, UK. Zusammenfassung This open access book, originally published in Portuguese in 1988 and now available in English for the first time, describes the Brazilian educator, Antonio Leal's, experiences teaching so-called “unteachable” children in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. A Voice for Maria Favela tells the story of how Leal considers what the children bring to the class, gradually engaging them in developing a narrative about Maria Favela, a single mother and housemaid. Leal uses the sounds within the story to draw out the students’ abilities to see enunciation and articulation as a process of becoming literatized. A contemporary and admirer of Paulo Freire, Leal nevertheless recognised that his students’ needs could not be theorized along Freirean lines of oppressor/oppressed. He devised an emancipatory approach that is more focussed on the individual child and their capacity for self-expression than those often found in critical pedagogy. The book puts forward a unique type of radical pedagogy and philosophy of education, developed through direct classroom observation. The book includes a substantial introduction written by the translator Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK) and preface by Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil). The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) Translator’s Introduction, Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK) 1. (Author’s) Introduction2. March of ‘813. Play4. Games5. Methods6. Family7. Special Education8. The Pupil9. Didactics10. Community11. The Civic12. The Cliché13. Murals14. A Civil Intervention15. The Maid16. Sickness/Hunger/Madness17. Violence18. PoliticsReferencesIndex...
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Preface by Inny Accioly
(Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)Translator's Introduction, Alexis Gibbs
(University of Winchester, UK)1. (Author's) Introduction
2. March of '81
3. Play
4. Games
5. Methods
6. Family
7. Special Education
8. The Pupil
9. Didactics
10. Community
11. The Civic
12. The Cliché
13. Murals
14. A Civil Intervention
15. The Maid
16. Sickness/Hunger/Madness
17. Violence
18. Politics
References
Index
About the author
Antonio Leal
