Paulo Friere was born in Brazil in 1921. He inspired many people to re-think the educational system of his time. He belived in dialoge, the mutual respect between teacher and learner. Where the teacher learns and the learner teaches and vice versa. He thought this was the best way to educate a critical mass of people who are seeking change in their world. This challenged the "banking" system in which students were force fed deposits from their teachers. Paulo gained fame by his impressive results of teaching 300 sugar cane workers to read and write in just 45 days.
Paulo Freire's educational theories took the word education to a new level. His work is world famous for weaving education and liberation. Paulo beleived in coscientization-developing consciousness, but consciousness that is understood to have the power to transform reality' (Taylor 1993: 52). I think this is the idea that expands the meaning of education. The current idea of teaching a curricula doesn't allow for teachers roaming off topic to teach students real life skills. Paulo thought teaching through dialoge could help to change the world by teaching peolple the actual reality of the world in due perpective and thereby transcend that reality.
Paulo Freire's most famous book was, Pedogogy of the Oppressed. Paulo had a special intrest in teaching education to those who where suffering the most, the poor. He beleived education was not about numbers and letters but about changing the world. He realized the the majority of the people in this world where the ones with little money and the ones making the curricula where the ones with the money. This was a hard task to tackle in an even harder time in histroy but he did his best to create power through knowledge. Not only did he make it his life mission to create change through proper educationbut I beleive he was successful. I beleive Paulo Freire was a great man responsible for an awakening of the masses to the reality of this world.
Sources:
www.infed.org
en.wikipedia.org
www.youtube.com
www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Paulo_Freire/paulo_freire.html - 20k
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keys here:
dialogue, respect, challenging the banking system, liberation, conscientization (and this leading toward praxis), privilege and oppression (the key here is that it doesn't necessarily mean that it deals with financial level/wealth or lack of). Thank you for your work, Rachel!
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