Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility by Csar Augu... - 9780742536975

Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of PossibilityFrom Blind to Transformative Optimism\nAuthor(s): Csar Augusto Rossatto, Ana Maria Arajo Freire\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742536975, 978-0742536975\nSynopsis\nEngaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. Csar Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on students' success in school. These perceptions-how they interpret the past, live in the present, and foresee the future-are, in turn, greatly influenced by their intellectual locality. By the same token, how educators see their position in the world and their classroom \""roles\"" determines their operan.