Antonia Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, and is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg. She is a distinguished international Freirean scholar, and her recent publications include Freire and Education (2014) and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love (2017).

• Preface Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA1. Context: Historical & Philosophical Foundations2. Overview of Major Themes3. Reading the Text Chapter-by-Chapter4. Influence and Lasting Relevance: An Interview with Ana Maria Freire AraujoBibliography: List of books and articles written about Pedagogy of the OppressedIndex

Darder does the masterful work of combining the personal and the political which both situates Paulo as a freedom fighter and his work as a deep and moving expression of the radical and social imagination. This is a manuscript that both theorizes pedagogy while it performs it in an accessible way that Paulo would have loved. Pedagogy in this sense is rooted in both a historical context and functions as a text to address the immensity of the burden that education as the practice of freedom has to address in the current moment of repression. This book should be considered a national treasure and will be read by future generations as a crucial text in both their understanding of Paulo’s classic work and as a text that will inspire and energize them.