A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire
by Leslie Bentley
(Current: 12/99)
EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, He grew up in the Northeast of Brazil where his experiences deeply influenced his life work. The world economic crisis forced Freire to know hunger and poverty at a young age. He recalls in Moacir Gadotti’s book, Reading Paulo Freire, &#;I didn’t understand anything because of my hunger. I wasn’t dumb. It wasn’t lack of interest. My social condition didn’t allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge&#; (5). Because Freire lived among poor rural families and laborers, he gained a deep understanding of their lives and of the effects of socio-economics on education.
Freire became a grammar teacher while still in high school. Even then his intuition pushed him toward a dialogic education in which he strived to understand students’ expectations (5). While on the Faculty of Law in Recife, Freire met his wife, Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher and an important force in his life. They married in when Freire was 23 and eventually had five children, three of whom became educa
Paulo Freire - A brief biography
Paulo Freire was born in in Recife, Brazil. In he began work with adult illiterates in North-East Brazil and gradually evolved a method of work with which the word conscientization has been associated.
Until he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Education in the University of Recife and in the s he was involved with a popular education movement to deal with massive illiteracy. From there were widespread experiments with his method and the movement was extended under the patronage of the federal government. In there were courses for co-ordinators in all Brazilian states and a plan was drawn up for the establishment of cultural circles to reach 2,, illiterates!
Freire was imprisoned following the coup d’etat for what the new regime considered to be subversive elements in his teaching. He next appeared in exile in Chile where his method was used and the UN School of Political Sciences held seminars on his work. In he was Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Development and Social Change at Harvard University.
He then went to the World Council of Churches in Geneva where, in , he took up a post as special consu
Biography
Born in Recife (PE), the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire () is recognized worldwide as one of the most important thinkers in the history of education, for his commitment to the liberation of oppressed classes, through work that develops critical awareness and involves pedagogical, critical and transformative dialogue.
Military dictatorship – arrested in , Paulo Freire spent 70 days in a barracks cell in Olinda (PE). On discovering that he was a teacher, one of the officers asked him to tech some of the recruits to read and write, and the educator explained that he had been imprisoned for the exact reason that he was teaching people to read and write.
In , after 16 years in exile, Paulo returned to Brazil to “re-learn” his country, as he said at the time. He lectured at the State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – (PUC-SP)). The Professor and coordinator of the Cathedra Paulo Freire at PUC-SP, Ana Maria Saul, was a member of the team headed by Paulo Freire when he was Municipal Secretary for Education, in São Paulo, and shared
Paulo Freire
By Roberta Clare
Catholic
PAULO FREIRE () is regarded as one of the most influential educators of the 20th century. Freire's pedagogy is synonymous with critical pedagogy, critical literacy, dialogical pedagogy and praxis learning. It has contributed to the development of popular education, participatory-action research and transformative learning theory. In light of Freire's contribution to adult education, it is surprising that biographical sketches of Freire in English remain incomplete. The absence of accurate information reinforces Freire's mystique. His reader follows Freire - the philosopher, writer, educator and social activist as he engages in his own conscientization. Freire struggles to reform institutions that promote banking education, narrow the gap between theory and practice in praxis approaches to social transformation, participate in the redevelopment of countries emerging from post-colonialism and revolution, and integrate epiphanic life experiences into his personhood and pedagogy. Raised in a Roman Catholic home, Freire insisted that he never abandoned his faith despite the strong influence of Marxist philosophy in his writing. Rarely me
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