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Paulo Freire

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Educational Philosophers and Progressive Reformers

Brazilian educator and philosopher whose literacy work with peasants in Brazil and, after imprisonment and exile following the 1964 coup, in Chile and elsewhere, produced Pedagogy of the Oppressed, one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy and liberationist education.

Facts
Birth Year
1921 1
Death Year
1997 1
Birthplace
Recife, Brazil 1
Nationality / Culture
Brazilian 1
Defining Contribution
Founded critical pedagogy, arguing education should be a dialogic practice of conscientization that frees the oppressed from a banking model of instruction, developed through adult literacy campaigns. 1
Notable Work
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) 1
Connections

Associated With

Source Dialogic learning (Wikipedia)

Policies Informed

Source Anti-oppressive education (Wikipedia)
bell hooks, Thinkers

hooks builds engaged pedagogy on Freire

Source Feminist pedagogy - Wikipedia
Jack Mezirow, Thinkers

Mezirow credited Freire's conscientization as an influence on transformative learning theory.

Theories and Approaches Developed

Source Wikipedia
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Theories and Approaches Developed: Critical Pedagogy, Critical pedagogy, Definition
    Critical pedagogy was founded by the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire, who promoted it through his 1968 book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
  • Theories and Approaches Developed: Critical Pedagogy, Pedagogy of the Oppressed article, Freire attribution
    a book by Brazilian Marxist educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese between 1967 and 1968
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Anti-oppressive education (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPolicies Informed: Anti-Oppressive Education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed section, first sentence
Quote, Policies Informed: Anti-Oppressive Education, Pedagogy of the Oppressed section, first sentence
In Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (first published in Portuguese in 1968, then in English in 1970), he stated that education is suffering from "narration sickness"
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Dialogic learning (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Dialogic Learning, Freire: the theory of dialogic action section
Quote, Associated With: Dialogic Learning, Freire: the theory of dialogic action section
Paulo Freire (1970) states that human nature is dialogic, and believes that communication has a leading role in our life.
Feminist pedagogy - Wikipedia
Policies Informed: Feminist Pedagogy, Feminist pedagogy page, influential figures section
Quote, Policies Informed: Feminist Pedagogy, Feminist pedagogy page, influential figures section
Theorist Paulo Freire is known for his work in the field of critical pedagogy, of which feminist pedagogy is a particular manifestation
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