Educacion participativa paulo freire biography
O argumento neste ensaio é que a pedagogia de Paulo Freire representa tanto uma consolidação do pensamento pedagógico latino-americano quanto o ponto de..
A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire
by Leslie Bentley
(Current: 12/99)
EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, 1921.
The article approaches the relationship between the aims of Paulo Freire's education for liberation and the praxis of popular communication.
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.
In all of Paulo Freire's production, it is possible to observe the breadth of the teaching and learning process and the provocation to teachers, as fundamental.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 Reci