Rethinking Freire and Illich Receives 2025 CAFE Award

The Canadian Association of Foundations of Education has awarded Rethinking Freire and Illich with its 2025  Publication Award for Edited Book. The book was edited by THEIRG members Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Michael Attridge, and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. 

The award recognizes work that "makes an exceptional contribution to knowledge in the foundations of education; addresses an issue of high-interest in the disciplines of the foundations of education; a selection of authors that engage diverse orientations to the issue; engages in a timely way with the issue under consideration, highlighting contemporary relevance to the foundations of education in Canada" (source: CAFE).

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada.

The book is published by University of Toronto Press and is available at https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487550431