Who was Paulo Freire?

1. Beginning of your educational path
1. Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was born on September 19, 1921 in Recife
  1. Capital of Pernambuco, a Brazilian province in the northeast region of the country.
  2. The son of a middle-class family
    1. Freire experienced poverty and hunger during the Great Depression of 1929
2. In 1943, he entered the Law School of the University of Recife
  1. Where he studied Philosophy and Psychology of Language at the same time.
3. He joined the state bureaucracy, but never practiced law,
  1. Instead he preferred to teach Portuguese in high school
    1. And that is when he began to put his educational proposal into practice.
      1. 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
1. In 1944 he married Elza M. Costa de Oliveira
2. In 1961, he was appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife
  1. In 1962 he had the first opportunity to apply his theories in a meaningful way
    1. When 300 sugarcane workers were taught to read and write in just 45 days
    2. In response to these good results
      1. The Brazilian government approved the creation of thousands of cultural circles throughout the country.
3. The creation of the curricula was a proposal that did not last long
  1. Since in 1964, there was a military coup, which put an end to the project
    1. And if that wasn't enough, Freire was imprisoned as a traitor for 70 days.
      1. 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
1. Freire's pedagogical thought consisted of:
  1. "The reading of the world precedes the reading of the word."
    1. Your goal is, even before starting the literacy process
      1. 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.
2. Freire argued that education must become a political process
  1. Since each subject makes politics from any space where he is
    1. And the classroom cannot be indifferent to this process
      1. For the educator, knowledge must be built from
        The different realities that affect the two political subjects in action:
        Student
        Teacher
4. Legacy
1. On May 2, 1997, Paulo Freire died due to an acute myocardial infarction
  1. Days before his death he was still debating the new prospects for education in the world
2. It is considered that his contributions on emancipatory critical literacy
  1. They are a mandatory reference in sociocultural approaches to
    1. Reading
    2. Writing

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