Paulo Freire: A Reading Guide

Patrick S. O’Donnell (2020)

 Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Herder and Herder, English edition, 1970 (1968).
 Freire, Paulo. Cultural Action for Freedom. Penguin, 1972.
 Freire, Paulo. Education for Critical Consciousness. Seabury Press, 1973.
 Freire, Paulo. Education, the Practice of Freedom. Writers and Readers Publishing
Cooperative, 1976.
 Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau. Seabury Press, 1978.
 Freire, Paulo. A Day with Paulo Freire. I.S.P.C.K., 1980.
 Freire, Paulo. The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation. Bergin & Garvey,
1985.
 Freire, Paulo, and Donaldo P. Macedo. Literacy: Reading the Word & the World. Bergin &
Garvey Publishers, 1987.
 Freire, Paulo and Antonio Faundez. Learning to Question: Pedagogy of Liberation.
Continuum, 1989.
 Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the City. Continuum, 1993.
 Freire, Paulo, and Ana Maria Araújo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the
Oppressed. Continuum, 1994.
 Freire, Paulo and Donaldo P. Macedo. Letters to Cristina: Reflections on My Life and Work.
Routledge, 1996.

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 Freire, Paulo, and Ana Maria Araújo Freire. Pedagogy of the Heart. Continuum, 1997.
 Freire, Paulo. Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare. Westview Press,
1998.
 Freire, Paulo, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, and Donaldo P. Macedo. The Paulo Freire Reader.
Continuum, 1998.
 Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
 Freire, Paulo and Donaldo Macedo. Ideology Matters. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
 Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire (Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters, eds.). We
Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press, 1990.

Works about Paulo Freire

 Brown, S. G. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric, Radical Praxis.
Routledge, 2011.
 Coben, Diana. Radical Heroes: Gramsci, Freire, and the Politics of Adult Education. New
York: Garland Pub., 1998.

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  Collins, Denis E. Paulo Freire: His Life, Works, and Thought. Paulist Press, 1977.
 Elias, John L. Paulo Freire: Pedagogue of Liberation. Krieger Pub. Co., 1994.
 Gadotti, Moacir. Reading Paulo Freire: His Life and Work. State University of New York
Press, 1994.
 Grillos, G.H.A. Giroux, P. Gounari, and D. Macedo. Paulo Freire and the Curriculum.
Paradigm Press, 2009.
 Irwin, J. Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: Origins, Developments, Impacts and Legacies.
Continuum, 2012.
 Kirylo, James D., ed. Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Critical
Perspectives. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
 Lake, R. and T. Kress. Paulo Freire’s Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis.
Bloomsdale Academic, 2013.
 Mackie, Robert. Literacy and Revolution: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire. Pluto Pluto Press,
1980.
 Mayo, Peter. Gramsci, Freire, and Adult Education: Possibilities for Transformative Action.
Zed Books, 1998.
 Mayo, Peter. Liberating Praxis: Paulo Freire's Legacy for Radical Education and Politics.
Praeger, 2004.
 McLaren, Peter and Peter Leonard. Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter. Routledge, 1993.
 Rossatto, C. and A.M. Ara. Engaging Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Possibility. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2004.

See too the many works of Henry A. Giroux (b. September 18, 1943), “[o]ne of the founding
theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in
public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical
theory.”