Peter Mayo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 269292 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Mayo |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Mayo |
| FIRMA | MAYO P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1418-773X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Intergenerationality and Social Change through Popular Education in a Neoliberal World
This article focuses on popular education as a means of intergenerational education for social transformation against the neocolonial neoliberalism imposed by the “West”. The intergenerational nature of popular education has received little attention, yet it is truly relevant, especially today. Indeed, the current political and economic context is witnessing the spread of new political movements in the Global ‘North’, and even more so in regions …
Adult learning and education in the Mediterranean – a view from southern Europe
This article examines the key role that adult learning and education (ALE) has played and continues to play in addressing the challenges faced by critical engagement with identities and crossing borders in the Mediterranean region. Despite the great cultural, economic and educational diversities characterising the region, the author explores whether a distinctive and recurring pattern of ALE exists or is likely to emerge. His analysis highlights …
A global intellectual in a globalising world
This paper presents Paulo Freire (1921-1997), on the centenary of his birth in 2021, as a global icon in education, whose actions, reflections and writings, as well as dialogues and talks, occurred against the background of an ever globalising world. To quote Martin Carnoy on a text concerning globalisation, published two years following Freire’s demise, processes of globalisation have intensified and acquired new meaning through advances in info…
Antonio Gramsci, Settler-Colonialism and Palestine
This article explores Gramsci’s relevance to colonialism with particular reference to the situation in Palestine and the Palestinians. It historically oscillates between the Italy and larger world contexts of Gramsci's time and the Palestinian and larger Arab contexts in more recent times, especially, in the latter case, from the onset of settler colonialism in the Middle East. While it covers a broad range of writings by Gramsci, notably the not…
Understanding colonialism and fostering a decolonizing emancipatory education through Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire's Philosophy of education in contemporary context
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
Marxist-inflected praxis in Paulo Freire's political pedagogy
This paper discusses and explains Freire's Marxist-inflected concept of praxis as developed throughout his oeuvre. A key feature, deriving from Marx and others, notably Gramsci, is the positing of a dialectical relationship between consciousness and the world. This is at the heart of his celebrated pedagogical approach. Praxis dates back to the time of the ancient Greek 'civilisation' Aristotle in primis. It involves an intellectual effort, a ref…
Engaging in Popular Communal Imagination and the Holy Week Culture in Malta
This paper derives its impetus from a project of community learning centring on a Holy Land narrative that captures the imagination in many parts of Southern Europe, including the community and country in question. The focus is the series of activities surrounding Holy Week in the Roman Catholic calendar and the country in question is Malta. This article sheds light on the politics of the event or, more accurately, the relationship of Holy Week a…
Praxis in Paulo Freire’s Emancipatory Politics
Praxis is the central concept which Paulo Freire adopts to capture the dialectical relationship between consciousness and the world, reflected in the pedagogical approach for which he became famous. It is this concept I seek to clarify in this paper. I focus on Paulo Freire's development of praxis throughout his massive oeuvre. This reflects his social and pedagogical thinking throughout a span of over thirty years. I do this in view of the highl…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Lifelong learning challenges
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA, this book provides a cross-section of theoretical work as well as case studies on the challenges and possibilities of bringing tog…
Engaging the glocal
This paper draws on a national lifelong learning (LLL) strategy document to argue that not all EU member states are ready to give up on a more broadened social and community-oriented form of LLL, at least in their policy document discourse. They can appeal, in their policy interpretations, to the ‘democratic imaginary’ whereby learning, including adult and LLL, is still primarily conceived as a public good. The paper theoretically explores the wa…
The roots of Paulo Freire’s Praxis
They keep coming – books by and on Paulo Freire. More than 20 years after his death, Freire continues to attract scholarly attention worldwide. This leading pedagogical figure has had and continues
Gramsci, Hegemony and Educational Politics
Tom Sperlinger, Romeo and Juliet in Palestine
International Critical Pedagogy Reader
Southern-European signposts for critical popular adult education
This paper focuses on three Southern European countries, Italy, Portugal and Spain, to explore examples of projects that provide signposts for a critical popular education that contributes to an ongoing democratic process – one whereby citizens are developed as social actors and members of a collectivity rather than simply passive producers/consumers. This approach would serve as an alternative to the traditional ‘top-down’ and current hegemonic …
Italian signposts for a sociologically and critically engaged pedagogy. Don Lorenzo Milani (1923–1967) and the schools of San Donato and Barbiana revisited
This paper provides a critical exposition and analysis of the work of an acclaimed Italian educator, Lorenzo Milani, and ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. His work is well known in Italy and many parts of southern Europe. Despite the translations of his works into English and Spanish, in the early 1970s, and their use in sociology of education classes in the United Kingdom, he seems to have had a very limited impac…
Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism
Based in a holistic exposition and appraisal of Gramsci’s writings that are of relevance to education in neoliberal times, this book--rather than simply applying Gramsci's theories to issues in education--argues that education constitutes the leitmotif of his entire oeuvre and lies at the heart of his conceptualization of the ancient Greek term hegemony that was used by other political theorists before him. Starting from this understanding, the b…
Paulo Freire in the 21st century. Education, Dialogues and Transformation
Around 26 years ago, I submitted a Master’s thesis in Canada comparing Paulo Freire with Antonio Gramsci. A fellow graduate student, who was to become a leading internationally published scholar in
Antonio Gramsci's Impact on Critical Pedagogy
This article provides an account of Antonio Gramsci's impact on the area of critical pedagogy. It indicates the Gramscian influence on the thinking of major exponents of the field. It foregrounds Gramsci's ideas and then indicates how they have been taken up by a selection of critical pedagogy exponents who were chosen on the strength of their identification and engagement with Gramsci's ideas, some of them even having written entire essays on Gr…
Learning with Adults
Pedagogy under Siege in Palestine
This paper analyses the relevance of Paulo Freire's pedagogical and philosophical ideas within the context of occupied Palestine. It specifically focuses on the work in continuing community action and education carried out by a particular centre established at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, and at the heart of the ‘old city’, for this purpose. The major focus here is on community theatre foregrounding issues related to women in Palestinian soci…
The EU Memorandum on lifelong learning . Old wine in new bottles
This paper provides a critical analysis of the EU’s Memorandum on lifelong learning in light of the evolution of the concepts of lifelong education and lifelong learning from the late sixties onward. It also analyses this document in light of the forces of globalisation that impinge on educational policy‐making in Europe as well as the all‐pervasive neo‐liberal ideology. The paper moves from theory to practice to provide critical considerations c…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Lifelong learning challenges
Antonio Gramsci and his Relevance for the Education of Adults
This paper, drawing on original sources, provides an overview of and a discussion on those writings and ideas, in Antonio Gramsci's huge corpus of work, that are relevant to the education of adults. This should provide a fitting tribute to this major social theorist of the 20th century on the 70th anniversary of his death. Among the topics discussed are those of adult education for industrial democracy, adult education and cultural preparation, a…
Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire
This paper will focus on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, namely Antonio Gramsci (1891‐1937) and Paulo Freire (b. 1921). Both were engaged in projects which, though different, were conceived of and carried out within the context of an unmistakably left‐wing politics of social transformation and, therefore, an ongoing struggle against systemic, structural and symbolic forms of oppression. Both regarded forms of adu…
Critical literacy and emancipatory politics
Southern-European signposts for critical popular adult education
This paper focuses on three Southern European countries, Italy, Portugal and Spain, to explore examples of projects that provide signposts for a critical popular education that contributes to an ongoing democratic process – one whereby citizens are developed as social actors and members of a collectivity rather than simply passive producers/consumers. This approach would serve as an alternative to the traditional ‘top-down’ and current hegemonic …
Antonio Gramsci's Impact on Critical Pedagogy
This article provides an account of Antonio Gramsci's impact on the area of critical pedagogy. It indicates the Gramscian influence on the thinking of major exponents of the field. It foregrounds Gramsci's ideas and then indicates how they have been taken up by a selection of critical pedagogy exponents who were chosen on the strength of their identification and engagement with Gramsci's ideas, some of them even having written entire essays on Gr…
When Does it Work? Freire's Pedagogy in Context
Examines the influence of Paulo Freire's pedagogical ideas on adult education. Domestication and liberation; Limits and possibilities of social transformation; Cultural revolution
Competitiveness, diversification and the international higher education cash flow
This paper focuses on the EU discourse on Higher Education and analyses this discourse within the context of globalisation. Importance is attached to the issues of lifelong learning, competitiveness, diversification, entrepreneurship, access, knowledge society, modernisation, quality assurance, innovation and creativity, governance and business–HE partnerships. The paper also provides a critical analysis of this discourse focusing on certain issu…
Understanding colonialism and fostering a decolonizing emancipatory education through Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire's Philosophy of education in contemporary context
Engaging the glocal
This paper draws on a national lifelong learning (LLL) strategy document to argue that not all EU member states are ready to give up on a more broadened social and community-oriented form of LLL, at least in their policy document discourse. They can appeal, in their policy interpretations, to the ‘democratic imaginary’ whereby learning, including adult and LLL, is still primarily conceived as a public good. The paper theoretically explores the wa…
Gramsci and the politics of education
This paper deals with aspects of Antonio Gramsci's thinking on education and related cultural work, highlighting issues such as those of effective curricula, different forms of educators/intellectuals, work-oriented education and popular education, which have resonance with contemporary debates in the field. Gramsci's ideas provide insights for an effective contemporary socialist pedagogical politics that are based on the principle of critical ac…
Critical Approaches to Education in the Work of Lorenzo Milani and Paulo Freire
Social difference, cultural arbitrary and identity
This article focuses on the idea of the Curriculum as a 'selection from the cultures of society' and as a site of contestation for legitimacy and identity affirmation. The purpose is to shed some light on the nature of curricular reform being advocated in a specific context - Malta. Throughout the past four years, there has been a revamping of the National Minimum Curriculum (NMC) document in Malta, established in 1988. The 'old' National Minimum…
From 'Adjuncts' to 'Subjects
This paper focuses on a project of parental involvement in a state primary school located in a predominantly working-class area in Malta. The authors are two of the project's coordinators. The paper reviews the international literature on parental participation in schools, gives an account of the socio-economic context of the school, and foregrounds, through empirical data culled from transcribed semi-structured interviews, the voices of parents,…
Tribute to Paulo Freire (1921‐1997)
(1997). Tribute to Paulo Freire (1921‐1997) International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 365-370
Museums as Sites of Critical Pedagogical Practice
Paulo Freire’s notion that education is politics is well known to readers involved \nin areas of critical education, and thus a detailed rehearsal of the burgeoning \nliterature illustrating and elaborating on this view is not necessary. After all, this \nview has a very long, albeit repressed, history, which anticipates Freire and those \nwho took up the legacy of his thought and action; suffice to mention, for example, \nwork connected with ‘‘i…
Challenges for Critical Pedagogy
Praxis in Paulo Freire’s Emancipatory Politics
Praxis is the central concept which Paulo Freire adopts to capture the dialectical relationship between consciousness and the world, reflected in the pedagogical approach for which he became famous. It is this concept I seek to clarify in this paper. I focus on Paulo Freire's development of praxis throughout his massive oeuvre. This reflects his social and pedagogical thinking throughout a span of over thirty years. I do this in view of the highl…
The roots of Paulo Freire’s Praxis
They keep coming – books by and on Paulo Freire. More than 20 years after his death, Freire continues to attract scholarly attention worldwide. This leading pedagogical figure has had and continues
Comparative and international perspectives on education in small states
This special issue of Comparative Education focuses on education in small states. It seeks to \nplace in sharp relief the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of educational provision \nin political jurisdictions having a very small population – populations which encounter specific \nchallenges, threats and opportunities. Despite the many similarities that are revealed in the \ncollective articles, it remains difficult to generalise when…
Adult education in small states
A small state faces several challenges with regard to adult continuing education and training. The paper discusses some of these challenges with specific reference to the Mediterranean small island state of Malta. It starts with a general discussion of some of the issues affecting adult education in a small state such as Malta that paves the way for the more focused analyses in the second and third sections. These sections focus on a selection of…
Malta's National Curriculum
A Grammar of Byelorussian
The Alphabet and Orthography of Byelormssian in the 20th Century
Byelorussian Orthography
Whither Modern Byelorussian Lexis
The Morphology of Aspect in Seventeenth-Century Russian
A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century
When Does it Work? Freire's Pedagogy in Context
Examines the influence of Paulo Freire's pedagogical ideas on adult education. Domestication and liberation; Limits and possibilities of social transformation; Cultural revolution
Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire
This paper will focus on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, namely Antonio Gramsci (1891‐1937) and Paulo Freire (b. 1921). Both were engaged in projects which, though different, were conceived of and carried out within the context of an unmistakably left‐wing politics of social transformation and, therefore, an ongoing struggle against systemic, structural and symbolic forms of oppression. Both regarded forms of adu…
Gramsci, Freire, and Radical Adult Education
Critical literacy and emancipatory politics
Malta's National Curriculum
Tribute to Paulo Freire (1921‐1997)
(1997). Tribute to Paulo Freire (1921‐1997) International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 365-370
Remaining on the Same Side of the River
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Social difference, cultural arbitrary and identity
This article focuses on the idea of the Curriculum as a 'selection from the cultures of society' and as a site of contestation for legitimacy and identity affirmation. The purpose is to shed some light on the nature of curricular reform being advocated in a specific context - Malta. Throughout the past four years, there has been a revamping of the National Minimum Curriculum (NMC) document in Malta, established in 1988. The 'old' National Minimum…
From 'Adjuncts' to 'Subjects
This paper focuses on a project of parental involvement in a state primary school located in a predominantly working-class area in Malta. The authors are two of the project's coordinators. The paper reviews the international literature on parental participation in schools, gives an account of the socio-economic context of the school, and foregrounds, through empirical data culled from transcribed semi-structured interviews, the voices of parents,…
The EU Memorandum on lifelong learning . Old wine in new bottles
This paper provides a critical analysis of the EU’s Memorandum on lifelong learning in light of the evolution of the concepts of lifelong education and lifelong learning from the late sixties onward. It also analyses this document in light of the forces of globalisation that impinge on educational policy‐making in Europe as well as the all‐pervasive neo‐liberal ideology. The paper moves from theory to practice to provide critical considerations c…
Challenges for Critical Pedagogy
Critical Approaches to Education in the Work of Lorenzo Milani and Paulo Freire
Antonio Gramsci and his Relevance for the Education of Adults
This paper, drawing on original sources, provides an overview of and a discussion on those writings and ideas, in Antonio Gramsci's huge corpus of work, that are relevant to the education of adults. This should provide a fitting tribute to this major social theorist of the 20th century on the 70th anniversary of his death. Among the topics discussed are those of adult education for industrial democracy, adult education and cultural preparation, a…
Comparative and international perspectives on education in small states
This special issue of Comparative Education focuses on education in small states. It seeks to \nplace in sharp relief the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of educational provision \nin political jurisdictions having a very small population – populations which encounter specific \nchallenges, threats and opportunities. Despite the many similarities that are revealed in the \ncollective articles, it remains difficult to generalise when…
Adult education in small states
A small state faces several challenges with regard to adult continuing education and training. The paper discusses some of these challenges with specific reference to the Mediterranean small island state of Malta. It starts with a general discussion of some of the issues affecting adult education in a small state such as Malta that paves the way for the more focused analyses in the second and third sections. These sections focus on a selection of…
Competitiveness, diversification and the international higher education cash flow
This paper focuses on the EU discourse on Higher Education and analyses this discourse within the context of globalisation. Importance is attached to the issues of lifelong learning, competitiveness, diversification, entrepreneurship, access, knowledge society, modernisation, quality assurance, innovation and creativity, governance and business–HE partnerships. The paper also provides a critical analysis of this discourse focusing on certain issu…
Gramsci and Educational Thought
In his scattered and often cryptic writings appearing as political pamphlets, journalistic pieces, cultural reviews, letters from prison and, most particularly, those notes from the same prison that were intended as the foundation for a comprehensive work für ewig (for eternity), Antonio Gramsci provides elements for a large allembracing educational strategy. This strategy is intended to engender an ‘intellectual and moral reform’ of a scale that…
Adult education and the State
This paper focuses on the relationship between adult education and the State within the context of hegemonic globalization and the all pervasive neoliberal ideology. It draws from a variety of sources and provides an overview of discussions concerning the State giving pride of place to the Historical Materialist tradition in the area. Using a Gramscian perspective, it argues that contrary to the widespread mantra that the state has receded into t…
The Arab Spring, Digital Youth and the Challenges of Education and Work
Aided by new media and digital communication tools, youths have helped foster a democratic ethos throughout North Africa and the Middle East regions. The internet generation has a very firm grip on rights, civic liberties and democratic accountability and has well honed the art of single issue campaigns using new media. This paper argues that, for the most part, youth movements using new media platforms exhibit great adeptness at articulating a w…
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