Bøger af Antonio Leal

mascarada de la otredad, rapsodia de un mester, el lector tiene ahora entre sus manos un selecto número de poemas inscritos en la lírica de la poesía moderna, redactados en versos que caminan, y vienen y van por los laberintos de la cuaderna vía, en otros momentos son manufactura en verso libre, y su pretexto es el canto; otra manera de poder decirle no a la realidad, iluminar su sombra; con un estilo que acepta diversos registros y ritmos, un invento de sonidos, en donde cada palabra es un epitafio; trabajo poético que el autor le pidió cierta vez al poeta Octavio Paz si lo consideraba con algún valor para decidir o no llevarlo a editar. El premio Nóbel le dijo: ¿publíquelo, es buenö.

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 considers what the children bring to the class, gradually engaging them in developing a narrative about Maria Favela, a single mother and housemaid. Leal uses the sounds within the story to draw out the students' abilities to see enunciation and articulation as a process of becoming literatized. A contemporary and admirer of Paulo Freire, Leal nevertheless recognised that his students' needs could not be theorized along Freirean lines of oppressor/oppressed. He devised an emancipatory approach that is more focussed on the individual child and their capacity for self-expression than those often found in critical pedagogy. The book puts forward a unique type of radical pedagogy and philosophy of education, developed through direct classroom observation. The book includes a substantial introduction written by the translator Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK) and preface by Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil). The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.