A Voice for Maria Favela An Adventure in Creative Literacy

This open access book, originally published in Portuguese in 1988 and now available in English for the first time, describes the Brazilian educator, Antonio Leal’s, experiences teaching so-called “unteachable” children in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. A Voice for Maria Favela tells the story of how Leal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Leal, Antonio
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2022
Bloomsbury Academic
Edition1
SeriesRadical Politics and Education
Subjects
Antonio Leal
classroom observation
contextual circumstances
Critical Pedagogy
Education
Educational strategies and policy
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion
emancipatory approach
favelas
Language and Education
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics
Literacy
literacy as self-expression
literatization
Philosophy and theory of education
Philosophy of Education
radical pedagogy
Rio de Janeiro
Society and Social Sciences
Teaching English and Literacy (Education ASC3)
Teaching Specific Subjects
unteachable children
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ISBN135024760X
9781350247604
9781350247581
1350247596
1350247588
9781350247598
DOI10.5040/9781350247604

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword - Translator’s introduction - Introduction - March of ’81 - Play - Games - Methods - Family - Special education - The student - Teaching - Community - Civics (‘Civismo’) - Cliché - Murals - A civic episode … - The housemaid - Illness/hunger/madness - Violence - Politics