Paulo Freire
19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator and philosopher of education whose adult-literacy work in north-eastern Brazil grew into a wider theory of critical pedagogy. Exiled after the 1964 military coup, he wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which became one of the most widely cited books in the field of education. He later returned to Brazil and served as secretary of education for the city of Sao Paulo.
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Life events
Born into a middle-class family whose circumstances declined during the Great Depression.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied law and also read philosophy and the psychology of language.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA primary school teacher, she worked with him on his literacy projects.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe directed its education and culture division, working with industrial workers and their families.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA programme in Rio Grande do Norte that taught reading to sugarcane workers using words drawn from their own lives.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was jailed for some seventy days and then left Brazil, living in Bolivia and afterwards in Chile.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWritten in exile, it set out his critique of the 'banking' model of education.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe advised literacy programmes in newly independent African countries.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAppointed after the Workers' Party won the municipal election.
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