Donaldo macedo biography of rory
8 Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World 13 Rory Ryan, “The Social Life of Literature,” Cultural Studies.
This volume confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies....
Donaldo Macedo
Cape Verdean-American critical theorist and linguist
Donaldo Pereira Macedo (born ) is a Cape Verdean-American critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy, critical pedagogy and multicultural education studies.[1] Until he was Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[1] He was also the founder of the Master of Arts Program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and chaired the program until approximately [2][3]
He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education.[1][4] His work in translating and editing works of Paulo Freire, his published dialogues with Freire, and his own research on Freire's pedagogy, have significantly contributed to the field of critical pedagogy.[1] Macedo co-authored two books with Freire, Literacy: Reading the
