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Many people— school teachers, lecturers, activists, and community workers — involved in education work — formal, non-formal or informal — believe that education should engage in the struggle for social and political justice; that it should side with the poor, the vulnerable, the excluded, the oppressed, against those who, in their own interests, seek to maintain the world as it is. But education is distinct from propaganda: in working for social change, how should educators go about their business? This book examines alternative ways of thinking about education, including the ideas of Paulo Freire; with reference to examples from around the world, it also addresses questions of methodology, of how best to put radical theory into practice