Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Who was Paulo Freire?
- 1. Beginning of your educational path
- Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was born on
September 19, 1921 in Recife
- Capital of Pernambuco, a Brazilian province
in the northeast region of the country.
- The son of a middle-class family
- Freire experienced poverty and
hunger during the Great
Depression of 1929
- In 1943, he entered the Law School
of the University of Recife
- Where he studied Philosophy and
Psychology of Language at the same time.
- He joined the state bureaucracy,
but never practiced law,
- Instead he preferred to teach
Portuguese in high school
- And that is when he began to put his
educational proposal into practice.
- The approach of his practice consisted
- That the student, guided by his curiosity
- Should discover the academic contents in a dynamic way
- 2. Literacy process
- In 1944 he married Elza M. Costa de Oliveira
- In 1961, he was appointed director of the
Department of Cultural Extension of the
University of Recife
- In 1962 he had the first opportunity to
apply his theories in a meaningful way
- When 300 sugarcane workers were taught to
read and write in just 45 days
- In response to these good results
- The Brazilian government approved the
creation of thousands of cultural circles
throughout the country.
- The creation of the curricula was
a proposal that did not last long
- Since in 1964, there was a military
coup, which put an end to the
project
- And if that wasn't enough, Freire was
imprisoned as a traitor for 70 days.
- After a brief exile in Bolivia, Freire worked in Chile for 5 years
- During those 5 years, he worked to:
- "Christian Democratic Movement
for Agrarian Reform"
- “Organización para la Alimentación y la Agricultura de las
Naciones Unidas”
- In 1967, Freire published his first book, "Education as the practice of freedom."
- 3. An education that inspires freedom and hope
- Freire's pedagogical thought consisted of:
- "The reading of the world precedes the
reading of the word."
- Your goal is, even before starting the literacy process
- Lead the learner to assume himself as a subject of learning,
how to be capable and responsible
- As well as surpassing the magical
compression of reality
- Demystify the literate culture, which the learner
is initiating
- During this process the student develops
- A critical vision that will allow you to become an agent of change
- In opposition to the model of cultural reproduction that prevails in the school.
- Freire argued that education must become a
political process
- Since each subject makes politics from any space where he is
- And the classroom cannot be indifferent to this process
- For the educator, knowledge must be built from
- The different realities that affect the two political
subjects in action:
- Student
- Teacher
- 4. Legacy
- On May 2, 1997, Paulo Freire died due to an acute myocardial infarction
- Days before his death he was still debating the new
prospects for education in the world
- It is considered that his contributions on emancipatory critical literacy
- They are a mandatory reference in sociocultural approaches to
- Reading
- Writing