the teacher's voice

What can teachers do to build genuine authority in the classroom? Is today's school capable of listening and responding to teachers, parents, and students? How can we achieve a democratic education system in which schools retain autonomy and the gap between elite education and popular education does not widen? In a frank conversation, without technicalities or simplifications, Paulo Freire offers committed answers to these questions, while also traversing his own biography, his pedagogical project, his experience in public management, and his political ideas. The teacher's voice is a privileged gateway to Paulo Freire's thought: his words, with Edson Passetti's intelligent counterpoint, outline the broad strokes of a work as rich as it is anti-dogmatic. It is a lived, often moving account, which introduces us to his childhood days in the Northeast and his dreams of being a radio singer, the emergence of his vocation, and the people who shaped his way of seeing the world and education. He also recalls the times when everything seemed possible and the political obstacles to putting his ideas into practice, the dialogical method, and the pedagogy of the oppressed. Decades of exile, travels, and polemics reveal the extent of the educator's enormous impact. Without complacency, this book takes a stand in old and new debates and shows the relevance of the thinker in the face of the challenges of contemporary culture. In an era when emancipatory projects were surrounded by authoritarianisms, Freire's lucidity gives us tools not to give up on the utopia of changing the world. With dialogue as its axis and democratic conviction as its beacon, it calls us to fight for that school that listens, provokes, and lives the difficult experience of freedom.

What can teachers do to build genuine authority in the classroom? Is today's school capable of listening and responding to teachers, parents, and students? How can we achieve a democratic education system in which schools retain autonomy and the gap between elite education and popular education does not widen? In a frank conversation, without technicalities or simplifications, Paulo Freire offers committed answers to these questions, while also traversing his own biography, his pedagogical project, his experience in public management, and his political ideas. The teacher's voice is a privileged gateway to Paulo Freire's thought: his words, with Edson Passetti's intelligent counterpoint, outline the broad strokes of a work as rich as it is anti-dogmatic. It is a lived, often moving account, which introduces us to his childhood days in the Northeast and his dreams of being a radio singer, the emergence of his vocation, and the people who shaped his way of seeing the world and education. He also recalls the times when everything seemed possible and the political obstacles to putting his ideas into practice, the dialogical method, and the pedagogy of the oppressed. Decades of exile, travels, and polemics reveal the extent of the educator's enormous impact. Without complacency, this book takes a stand in old and new debates and shows the relevance of the thinker in the face of the challenges of contemporary culture. In an era when emancipatory projects were surrounded by authoritarianisms, Freire's lucidity gives us tools not to give up on the utopia of changing the world. With dialogue as its axis and democratic conviction as its beacon, it calls us to fight for that school that listens, provokes, and lives the difficult experience of freedom.