Paulo Freire, or Pedagogy as the Space and Time of Possibility

Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Social Change by Raymond Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres. New York: Columbia University, Teacher's College Press, 2002. 211 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8077‐4202‐3.; Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love by Antonia Darder. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002. 274 pp. $27.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐8133‐3968‐5.; The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice edited by Judith J. Slater , Stephen M. Fain , and Cesar A. Rossatto. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 226 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8204‐5671‐3.; When I think about history I think about possibility—that history is the time and space of possibility. … In making history we choose and realize possibilities. And in making history we begin to be made by history. ( Paulo Freire ) 1; This review essay has been translated from the Portuguese by Peter Lownds. See the preface, “Making History: Education for the Future,” in Antonia Darder, Reinventing Paulo Freire , p. x. This preface is a transcription of the speech given by Paulo Freire at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif., on May 12, 1989.