Bücher der Reihe Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire

This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close relation between its development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise.

In this text, the authors take on the corporate educators, media monopolies and oil companies. They show how corporate-produced curricula, films and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence and compassion in order to sell the public on policies.

What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of liberal education with educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? This text explores Western culture's longstanding ambivalence toward "the life of the mind".

In this text, the author, Paulo Freire, argues against progressive liberalism and its passive acceptance of a world where unemployment and hunger exist side by side with opulence. He shows why an acceptance of fatalism leads to the loss of personal and societal freedom.

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