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Freire 19707/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately after a military coup in April 1964, Freire had to flee from Brazil, following a short period of imprisonment as a traitor. ![]() He set out to establish 20,000 cultural learning circles throughout Brazil, for which he planned to import 35,000 slide projectors from Poland. His results were so impressive that he was invited to become director of the national literacy programme. It was here that he started working with illiterate poor people. Later he was appointed as the director of the Department of Education and Culture of the Social Service in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. His methods, using critical dialogue and consciousness-raising are not only applicable in his country of origin (Brazil) but widely used by a whole generation of social and development workers working in deprived neighbourhoods across poor and rich countries alike.įreire developed his thinking during a long career teaching Portuguese in secondary schools and literacy campaigns. Freire was committed to giving a voice to the poor and his ideas on education were intended to make people politically aware. ![]() This was originally published in 1968 (in Portuguese, in 1970 first English translation) but has been reprinted and translated numerous times and has become a source of inspiration for social workers throughout the world. The key ideas of Paulo Freire (1921-1997) are mostly explained in his well-known book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. ![]()
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