Add to ORKGExplicates Freire\u27s life and work (1921-1997) throughout his pre-exile years, his exile years, and the years following his return to Brazil; summarizes the influence that his own experiences had and that others\u27 thinking had on his conception of critical education and pedagogy; analyzes the various themes found in his writings and his practice of education; presents the views of numerous scholars on Freire\u27s legacy and his use of liberation theology and critical pedagogy; contains lengthy interviews with James A. Cone and with Freire\u27s second wife Nita; opens with a foreword by Donald Macedo and a preface by Shirley Steinberg and concludes with an afterword by Peter McLaren; quotes and exposes the reader to most of Freire\u27s w...