Paulo freire contribution to education
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A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire
by Leslie Bentley
(Current: 12/99)
EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, 1921. He grew up in the Northeast of Brazil where his experiences deeply influenced his life work. The world economic crisis forced Freire to know hunger and poverty at a young age. He recalls in Moacir Gadotti’s book, Reading Paulo Freire, “I didn’t understand anything because of my hunger. I wasn’t dumb. It wasn’t lack of interest. My social condition didn’t allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge” (5). Because Freire lived among poor rural families and laborers, he gained a deep understanding of their lives and of the effects of socio-economics on education.
Freire became a grammar teacher while still in high school. Even then his intuition pushed him toward a dialogic education in which he strived to understand students’ expectations (5). While on the Faculty of Law in Recife, Freire met his wife, Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher and an important
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Introduction
Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is a prominent educational theorist whose work lies entirely in the 20th century. In this module you will learn about the views of this eminent theorist and activist on education. The first part of the module contains an inspirational biographical sketch of Paulo Freire. As you read you will realise that knowing about the life of a theorist helps one appreciate the theoretical perspective with greater sensitivity and insight. The next section of this module provides an overview of Freire’s thoughts on education as presented in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his path breaking work.
Paulo Freire: A Brief Biography
Paulo Freire was born in Recife in Brazil in 1921. He belonged to a middle-class family. However, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Freire’s family like many others at the time began to experience poverty and
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Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator (1921–1997)
This article is about the educator. For the astronomer, see Paulo Freire (astronomer).
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Neves and the second or paternal family name is Freire.
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire[a] (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement,[38][39][40] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016[update] according to Google Scholar.[41]
Biography
Freire was born on 19 September 1921 to a middle-class family in Recife, the State Capital of Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast. He became familiar with poverty and hunger from an early age partly due to the effects of the Great Depression. In 1931, Freire moved with his family to Jaboatão dos Guararapes, located 18 kilometers south of
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