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SUMMARY:‘Possible Dreams: Paulo Freire and Utopian Education’ - Profes
 sor Peter Roberts\, University of Canterbury\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Paulo Freire’s work always had a strong utopian flavour.  Fr
 eire addressed the theme of utopia directly in his writings but he also so
 ught to bring a utopian worldview to life in his teaching and political ac
 tivism.  In the first part of this paper I outline some of the main elemen
 ts of Freire’s ontology\, epistemology and ethic\, and comment briefly o
 n key principles in Freirean pedagogy.  The second section focuses in a mo
 re extended way on the meaning of utopia in Freire’s educational theory 
 and practice.  I then identify some of the major critiques of Freire’s w
 ork.  In concluding\, I consider the relevance of Freire’s ideas for edu
 cationists in the contemporary world.\n\n****\n\nPeter Roberts is Professo
 r of Education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.  His primar
 y areas of scholarship are philosophy of education and educational policy 
 studies.  He has published widely in international journals. He is the aut
 hor or editor of ten books\, the most recent of which include Paulo Freire
  in the 21st Century: Education\, Dialogue\, and Transformation (2010)\, T
 he Virtues of Openness: Education\, Science\, and Scholarship in the Digit
 al Age\, with Michael Peters (2011)\, and From West to East and Back Again
 : An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work (2012).  Professo
 r Roberts is Director of the Educational Theory\, Policy and Practice Rese
 arch Hub at the University of Canterbury\, and Vice-President of the Philo
 sophy of Education Society of Australasia.  In 2010 he was a Canterbury Fe
 llow at the University of Oxford\, and in 2012 he has been an inaugural Ru
 therford Visiting Scholar at Trinity College\, Cambridge. \n
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