Review of Juha Suoranta: Militant Freire

Review of the book Juha Suoranta: Militant Freire. "Critical scholar and adult education professor Juha Suoranta’s Militant Freire is an insightful text about Paulo Freire’s radical life. In 112 pages, it is easy to devour in a day. As a Finnish professor at the University of Tampere, Suoranta writes for an international audience. In the introduction, he illuminates an essential aspect of Pedagogy of the Oppressed: ‘Freire also taught me that education and social sciences were political phenomena and that a militant approach was needed’ (p. 9). This helped me to understand the classic work on critical education better. It changed my life even more than my initial reading of the book."