Paulo+Freire

Paulo Freire (1921-1997)


 * Was exiled from his homeland of Brazil from 1964-1981
 * Taught at Harvard
 * His most famous work is //Pedagogy of the Oppressed,// although he has written 25 books
 * He worked to help teach the illiterate people of Brazil and Chile
 * He believed that the poor and oppressed could be liberated by education. He said, "Education is freedom."
 * He is known for his controversial approach to teaching to people who are illiterate. It often involved using visual aides.
 * Paulo Freire insist on situating educational activity in the lived experience of participants, this idea has opened up a series of possibilities for the way informal educators can approach practice. (Anqi)
 * Paulo Freire was criticized because he tends to argue in an either/or way in his work, which will simplistic analysis. (Anqi)
 * He believes education should raise the awareness of the students so that they become subjects, rather than objects, of the world. (Anqi)
 * He believes knowledge is a social construct. Also he discusses two type of knowledge, practical and critical knowledge. (Anqi)
 * Freire emphasized dialogue in education and thought that informational education is conversational, not simply a one way lecture. He believed that people should act with one another instead of on one another. (Kayley)
 * Freire enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Recife in 1943. He studied philosophy, more specifically phenomenology, and the psychology of language. (Jasmine)
 * Freire is a Brazilian educationalist and influential theorist of education. (Jasmine)
 * He won the UNESCO Prize Education for Peace in 1986 (Alex B)
 * An establishment named the Paulo Freire Institute was created in 1991 to further study his methods in popular education. The center is in São Paulo. (Alex B)
 * He is the author of Education for Critical Consciousness, The Politics of Education, Pedagogy of the Opressed, and Learning to Question: A pedagogy of Liberation(Eric C)
 * He was imprisoned in Brazil for 70 seventy for being a traitor in 1964.(J'Lisa)
 * He believes that education is suffering from what he calls "narration sickness," which emphasizes memorizing facts without understanding and realizing what they mean. (Nick S)
 * Believes the students are the oppressed and the teacher is the opressor (Allegra)
 * Paulo Freire disagrees with the banking method of teaching, he sees many faults in it (Allegra)
 * Feels the banking method is an unsuccessful approach to teaching, feels the better approach to instilling knowledge on others is through communication and the use of cognitive skills (Allegra)

Works: > > >   (Renee)
 * __Pedagogy of the Oppressed-__ By Paulo Freire (1970, 1986, 1993).
 * __Pedagogy of Hope__ - By Paulo Freire.
 * __ A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education  __ - By Ira Shor, P. Freire
 * __We Make the Road by Walking__ : Conversations on Education and Social Change- By Paulo Freire and Myles Horton
 * __Paulo Freire__ : A Critical Encounter
 * __Cultural action for freedom.__ - By Paulo Freire (1972)
 * __E__ __ducation for critical consciousness.__ - By Paulo Freire (1973)
 * __Education, the practice of freedom__ . - By Paulo Freire (1976)
 * __A day with Paulo Freire__ . - By Paulo Freire (1980)
 * __T__ __he politics of education:__ Culture, power, and liberation. - By Paulo Freire (1985)
 * __Literacy__ : Reading the word & the world - By Paulo Freire and Danaldo Macedo (1987)
 * __Learning to question:__ A pedagogy of liberation. - By Paulo Freire and Antonio Faundez (1989)
 * __Pedagogy of the city__ . - By Paulo Freire (1993)
 * __Pedagogy of hope:__ Reliving Pedagogy of the oppressed. - By Paulo Freire and Ana Maria Araújo Freire (1994)
 * __Letters to Cristina:__ Reflections on my life and work. - By Paulo Freire and Donaldo P. Macedo. (1996)
 * __Pedagogy of the heart__ . - By Paulo Freire and Ana Maria Araújo Freire (1997)
 * __Teachers as cultural workers__ : Letters to those who dare teach. - By Paulo Freire (1998)
 * __The Paulo Freire reader.__ - By Paulo Freire, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, and Donaldo P. Macedo (1998)
 * __Pedagogy of freedom__ : ethics, democracy, and civic courage. - By Paulo Freire (1998)