New book in Italian
Saggi di Pedagogia Critica. Oltre il Neoliberismo. Analizzando Educatori, Lotte e Movimenti Sociali is the title of a recently published book co-authored by Professor Peter Mayo of the University of Malta and Professor Paolo Vittoria from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
The book is published by the Società Editrice Fiorentina, formerly the Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, well known for its publication of Don Lorenzo Milani’s best known texts.
The new book consists of a series of essays on a variety of topics by the two authors, including Lifelong Learning, Popular Education, Social Class and Education, the Chilean September 11, Social Movements Learning with specific reference to the MST in Brazil, Education in the Mediterranean from a Freirean perspective, Antiracist education, Feminism of Difference and discusses the educational ideas of Ettore Gelpi, Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani and the Schools of Barbiana, Anna Maria Piussi, Antonia De Vita, Amilcar Cabral and Julius Nyerere.
This is Professor Mayo’s second book in Italian. His earlier book in this language was the translated version, published by Carlo Delfino in Sardinia, of his Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education. Carlos Delfino is also the publisher of Paolo Vittoria’s major work, Narrando Paulo Freire.
Publishers of Professor Mayo’s other books include the Maltese Midsea, Mireva, Allied Publishers and international publishers Routledge (four books), Wiley-Blackwell, Sense (soon to be Brill), Praeger, Zed Books, Paradigm, Bloomsbury Academic, Zero Books, Argument Verlag (Berlin), ArtMed (Porto Alegre), Rowman & Littlefield, Peter Lang NYC (two books), DVV-International, Dipnot (Ankara). EDIUNESC and Editora UFSC (Santa Catarina, Brazil) and Tara Jiro Sha Editus (Tokyo).
This June, Saggi di Pedagogia is being presented by the two authors at universities and prominent bookshops in Verona, Padova and Bologna. This Saturday it is being presented by Prof. Vittoria, during a conference, at a prominent bookstore in Lecce. It has been adopted as the main text for courses at the Universities of Verona and Naples Federico II.