MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION SERIES
J AMES A. B ANKS , Series Editor
First Freire: Early Writings in Social Justice Education
C ARLOS A LBERTO T ORRES
Mathematics for Equity:
A Framework for Successful Practice
N AILAH S UAD N ASIR , C ARLOS C ABANA , B ARBARA S HREVE , E STELLE W OODBURY , AND N ICOLE L OUIE , E DS .
Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice
S UHANTHIE M OTHA
Black Male(d): Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males
T YRONE C. H OWARD
LGBTQ Youth and Education: Policies and Practices
C RIS M AYO
Race Frameworks:
A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
Z EUS L EONARDO
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
P AUL C. G ORSKI
Class Rules:
Exposing Inequality in American High Schools
P ETER W. C OOKSON J R .
Teachers Without Borders? The Hidden Consequences of International Teachers in U.S. Schools
A LYSSA H ADLEY D UNN
Streetsmart Schoolsmart:
Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys
G ILBERTO Q. C ONCHAS AND J AMES D IEGO V IGIL
Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
W ILLIAM P REZ
Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
ZLEM S ENSOY AND R OBIN D I A NGELO
Achieving Equity for Latino Students: Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy
F RANCES C ONTRERAS
Literacy Achievement and Diversity: Keys to Success for Students, Teachers, and Schools
K ATHRYN H. A U
Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
A NNE H. C HARITY H UDLEY AND C HRISTINE M ALLINSON
Latino Children Learning English: Steps in the Journey
G UADALUPE V ALDS , S ARAH C APITELLI , AND L AURA A LVAREZ
Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education
R OBERT T. T ERANISHI
Our Worlds in Our Words: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Multicultural Classrooms
M ARY D ILG
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition
G ENEVA G AY
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in Americas Classrooms
T YRONE C. H OWARD
Diversity and Equity in Science Education: Research, Policy, and Practice
O KHEE L EE AND C ORY A. B UXTON
Forbidden Language:
English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies
P ATRICIA G NDARA AND M EGAN H OPKINS , E DS .
The Light in Their Eyes:
Creating Multicultural Learning Communities, 10th Anniversary Edition
S ONIA N IETO
The Flat World and Education: How Americas Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future
L INDA D ARLING -H AMMOND
Teaching What Really Happened:
How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
J AMES W. L OEWEN
Diversity and the New Teacher: Learning from Experience in Urban Schools
C ATHERINE C ORNBLETH
Frogs into Princes: Writings on School Reform
L ARRY C UBAN
Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society, Second Edition
J AMES A. B ANKS
Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind
C AROL D. L EE
Facing Accountability in Education: Democracy and Equity at Risk
C HRISTINE E. S LEETER , E D .
Talkin Black Talk:
Language, Education, and Social Change
H. S AMY A LIM AND J OHN B AUGH , E DS .
Improving Access to Mathematics: Diversity and Equity in the Classroom
N AILAH S UAD N ASIR AND P AUL C OBB , E DS .
To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
K. T SIANINA L OMAWAIMA AND T ERESA L. M C C ARTY
Education Research in the Public Interest: Social Justice, Action, and Policy
G LORIA L ADSON -B ILLINGS AND W ILLIAM F. T ATE , E DS .
Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the United States and South Africa
A RNETHA F. B ALL
We Cant Teach What We Dont Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools, Second Edition
G ARY R. H OWARD
Un-Standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom
C HRISTINE E. S LEETER
Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education
G LORIA L ADSON -B ILLINGS
Teaching and Learning in Two Languages: Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States
E UGENE E. G ARCA
Improving Multicultural Education: Lessons from the Intergroup Education Movement
C HERRY A. M C G EE B ANKS
Education Programs for Improving Inter group Relations: Theory, Research, and Practice
W ALTER G. S TEPHAN AND W. P AUL V OGT , E DS .
Walking the Road:
Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education
M ARILYN C OCHRAN -S MITH
City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education
P EDRO A. N OGUERA
Thriving in the Multicultural Classroom: Principles and Practices for Effective Teaching
M ARY D ILG
Educating Teachers for Diversity: Seeing with a Cultural Eye
J ACQUELINE J ORDAN I RVINE
Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life
W ALTER C. P ARKER
The Makingand Remakingof a Multiculturalist
C ARLOS E. C ORTS
Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers: Theory, Research, and Practice
M ICHAEL V AVRUS
Learning to Teach for Social Justice
L INDA D ARLING -H AMMOND , J ENNIFER F RENCH , AND S ILVIA P ALOMA G ARCIA -L OPEZ , E DS .
Culture, Difference, and Power
C HRISTINE E. S LEETER
Learning and Not Learning English: Latino Students in American Schools
G UADALUPE V ALDS
The Children Are Watching:
How the Media Teach About Diversity
C ARLOS E. C ORTS
Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
J AMES A. B ANKS , E D .
First Freire
EARLY WRITINGS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
Carlos Alberto Torres
Foreword by
Moacir Gadotti
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York and London
Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Copyright 2014 by Teachers College, Columbia University
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher.
was adapted from Moacir Gadotti and Carlos Alberto Torres, Paulo Freire: Education for Development. Journal Development and Change , November 2009, (6), 12551267. Journal published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. 2009 by the Institute of Social Studies. Used with permission.
The poem A Little More Than a Year Ago (for Paulo Freire) was originally published in Spanish in Carlos Alberto Torres, Poesa perdida al atardecer , 2004. Valencia, Spain, Editorial Germania. Translated into English by Dr. Peter Lownds. Used with permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Torres, Carlos Alberto.
First Freire: early writings in social justice education / Carlos Alberto Torres; foreword by Moacir Gadotti.
pages cm. (Multicultural education series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.