"Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. Warning: they'll swarm even if you're not into them, so keep an "Atlas Shrugged" jacket handy!Īctually, this book contains one of my guiding-light passages:
If you're into really sincere hippie guys, read this on the subway.
Other important concepts developed by Freire include: "Dialectic", "Empowerment", "Generative Themes/Words", "Humanization", "Liberatory Education", "Mystification", "Praxis", " Problematization", and "Transformation of the World". He is most well known for concepts such as "Banking" Education, in which passive learners have pre-selected knowledge deposited in their minds "Conscientization", a process by which the learner advances towards critical consciousness the "Culture of Silence", in which dominated individuals lose the means by which to critically respond to the culture that is forced on them by a dominant culture. Throughout this and subsequent books, he argues for system of education that emphasizes learning as an act of culture and freedom. He returned to Brazil in 1979.įreire's most well known work is Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). In 1969 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and then moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he assumed the role of special educational adviser to the World Congress of Churches. Following the military coup d'etat of 1964, he was jailed by the new government and eventually forced into a political exile that lasted fifteen-years. He subsequently became active in adult education and workers' training, and became the first Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife (1961-1964).įreire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil.
After a brief career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools from 1941-1947. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 2, 1997. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century.
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