Widely known as the founder of critical pedagogy, Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. "Education for Critical Consciousness" is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. The book includes an introduction by Denis Goulet, a preface by Jacques Chonchol and a new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres.