Paulo Freire – 1921-1997
Biographical Profile
Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is currently one of the most quoted educational texts (especially in Latin America, Africa and Asia). Freire was able to draw upon, and weave together, a number of strands of! thinking about educational practice and liberation.He was born on September 19, 1921 in Recife, a port city of northeastern Brazil. Freire said of his parents that it was they who taught him at an early age to prize dialogue and to respect the choices of others-key elements in his understanding of adult education. His parents were middle class but suffered financial reverses so severe during the Great Depression that Freire learned what it is to go hungry. It was in childhood that he determined to dedicate his life to the struggle against poverty and class oppression.
Biographical Profile
Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is currently one of the most quoted educational texts (especially in Latin America, Africa and Asia). Freire was able to draw upon, and weave together, a number of strands of! thinking about educational practice and liberation.He was born on September 19, 1921 in Recife, a port city of northeastern Brazil. Freire said of his parents that it was they who taught him at an early age to prize dialogue and to respect the choices of others-key elements in his understanding of adult education. His parents were middle class but suffered financial reverses so severe during the Great Depression that Freire learned what it is to go hungry. It was in childhood that he determined to dedicate his life to the struggle against poverty and class oppression.
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