Saturday, June 9, 2012

Paulo Freire.

He was born in Recife, Brasil in september of 1921. He was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of education. Freire enrolled at the University of Recife in 1943, the Faculty of Law, where he studied philosophy and psychology of language at the same time. He was appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University (1961), and he took the first opportunity to apply their theories in a meaningful way when he teached to read and write to poor persons (1962), because he thought than the education was very important for the people. In 1969, was offered the post of visiting professor at Harvard University in 1969. In Chile, Freire worked during five years for the Christian Democratic Movement for Agrarian Reform and the Organization for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Freire published a series of book, that contributed to the education, for the most importants were;"Education as practice of freedom" (1967) and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" (1970) I like Paulo Freire, because he was a teacher committed with the vulnerable people and for her multiple contributions to the education.

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  1. I also admire Paulo Freire.
    I like Paulo Freire because it was always a consistent between what he said and he did.

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