Pedagogy of Commitment Author:Paulo Freire In this first English translation of Freire?s 2008 book, Freire takes readers ever deeper into the acts and meaning of living a life of community and social commitment. For Freire, commitment entails any person?s engagement with the realities of the world as they are, not as we would wish them to be. For teachers specifically, this commitment is... more » not only to students, to the underprivileged, or to the education of those who speak a different language, but to the transformation of the self to become more deeply responsive to the needs of social transformations. More than any other Freire book, Pedagogy of Commitment speaks directly and plainly to the lives of individuals and to teachers.« less