57) which makes his interpretation compelling. Rather, it is Kahn’s placement of the ecopedagogy movement in a series of contradictions that calls for a “dialogue amongst various sustainability movements” (2010, p. Such a one-sided critique would have left Freire highly unimpressed. This is not to suggest that Kahn’s Freirian foundation is the only framework depicted in his interpretation. The second is that Freire and Horton, as well as Kahn, believe that true liberation involves active participation through the educational process. The first is that the ecopedagogy movement illustrated by Kahn stems from a path Freire began traveling before his untimely demise. I use Paulo Freire to introduce my critique of Richard Kahn’s Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, & Planetary Crisis (2010) for two reasons. Then, one must constantly reflect on that path to ensure both its pedagogical stability as well as its adaptability to both theory and practice in one’s own life as these experiences are lived.

One that suggests that to make the road, one must physically do something one must actively engage in the process of walking the path. The text had no formal a priori structure instead, Freire suggests that he and Horton would “make the road by walking.” That is, they would make their way through their spoken book as topics evolved out of the already existing conversation.īut the title is also suggestive of another interpretation. I begin this review by remembering Paulo Freire and Myles Horton’s great text, We make the road by walking (Horton & Freire, 1990), where Paulo Freire engages Myles Horton in what he called a “spoken book.” The text is comprised of a conversation between these two gentlemen as they delve into the complexities of education as, among many things, experiential, a popular movement for change, and inherently political in nature.

Review of Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, & Planetary Crises: The Ecopedagogy Movement by Richard Kahn, 2010, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4331-0545-6 Review of Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, & Planetary Crises: The Ecopedagogy Movement by Richard Kahn By Beth Pollock

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