2. PAULO FREIRE
• Born 1921 in Recife Brazil
• Father died 1933
• Was a child during the great depression
• Ended up 4 grades behind in school
Stevens, 2002)
3. PAULO FREIRE ON HIS POVERTY
Freire stated that poverty
and hunger severely
affected his ability to
learn.
This influenced his
decision to dedicate his
life to improving the
lives of the poor:
(Stevens, 2002)
4. PAULO FREIRE
• Studied to be a lawyer but never practiced law
• Taught Portuguese in school
• Appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of
Recife University
• Taught 300 sugar cane workers to read in 45 days.
• Government created many cultural circles around country
Brazil.
• Freire worked in several university and government agencies
in Brazil throughout the 1960s.
• He worked towards bringing literacy programs to Brazil’s poor.
• In April of 1964, a military coup brought all progressive
movements in Brazil to a halt.
• Freire was imprisoned for 70 days and then exiled for his
"subversive" activities.
5. PAULO FREIRE
• Published most famous book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’
• Offered and taught at Harvard
• Moved to Geneva
• Back to Brazil in 1980
• Wife died
• Remarried
• Died 1997
6. PAULO FREIRE LIFE AND TIMES REVIEW
• Paulo Freire was perhaps the most influential thinker about
education in the twentieth century; he has a major concern for
the oppressed. He emphasized the need to provide native
populations with an education which was new and modern.
• He had an enormous impact on the development of
educational practice and on informal education. Freire argues
that systems of education emphasize learning as an act of
culture and freedom.
7. OPPRESSION
Oppression is the prolonged unjust treatment or control of
someone, it’s the cruel exercise of power, many people
have tried to fight against it and strive for social justice
Freire was one of these people.
Paulo Freire recognised the importance of empowering
the oppressed.
8. PEDAGOGY
Pedagogy is the method and practice of teaching or the
art and profession of teaching, especially as an
academic subject or theoretical concept. Pedagogy
ranges from the full development of the human being to
the acquisition of skills. Paulo Freire referred to his
method of teaching people as "critical pedagogy".
9. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
Freire put forth a pedagogy or idea where the
individual learns to cultivate his own growth
through situations from his daily life that provide
useful learning experiences.
• (A teaching approach which attempts to help students
question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and
practices that dominate them.)
This is where the instructor's own philosophical
beliefs of instruction are influenced by the pupil's
background knowledge and experience, situation,
and environment, as well as the learning goals
set by the student and teacher.
10. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY/CONSCIOUSNESS
Two types of people that are
illiterate:
Those who cannot grasp the
sense of letters or symbols
Those who can "read" (in the
grammar school sense) but
who cannot read: understand
the meaning of the words they
see.
11. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
5 key principles of:
1. Education is a conversation
2. Education broadens the student’s view of reality
3. Education is empowering
4. Education is transformative
5. Education is political
(Abrahams, 2005)
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13. BANKING SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
• Students should not be viewed as an empty
“account” to be filled in by the teacher.
• Teachers should know that students have life
experiences and their own knowledge that is key
in shaping their education and learning.
• Good schools do not blame students for their
failures or strip students of the knowledge they
bring to the classroom.
14. "In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the
struggle for their liberation, they must perceive
the reality of oppression not as a closed world
from which there is no exit , but as a limiting
situation which they can transform."
15. HOW ARE THE THEORIES AND CONCEPTS FROM
THESE PEOPLE/TIMES RELEVANT FOR
CLASSROOM TEACHERS TODAY?
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17. JOURNALS
Abrahams, F. (2005). The application of critical pedagogy to music teaching
and learning. Visions of Research in Music Education, 6. Retrieved
from http://www.rider.edu/~vrme
Stevens, C. (2002). Critical pedagogy on the web: Key terms and concepts
related to critical pedagogy. Retrieved from http://mingo.info-science.
uiowa.edu /~stevens/critped/terms.htm. May 1 2013.
Schugurensky, D. (2011). Paulo Freire. New York, New York: Continuum
International Publishing Group
http://www.hermes-press.com/freire1.htm
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