We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change [Book Review]

Abstract

This book brings together two figures who, as activists and educationist, have revealed a lifelong commitment to transformative radical adult education. Both Myles Horton and Paulo Freire have a lot in common, as the editors of this publication point out in their introduction. Throughout their adult education work, Horton and Freire have underlined the distinctly political nature of educational activity, insisting that there can be no "neutral" education. They have also promoted the view of the learner as "subject" rather than "object" of the learning process. Furthermore, they both devised their adult education strategies within the framework of an ongoing struggle for the generation of radically democratic relations within the respective contexts in which they worked.