Teorias personalistas paulo freire biography
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A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire
by Leslie Bentley
(Current: 12/99)
EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, 1921.
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He grew up in the Northeast of Brazil where his experiences deeply influenced his life work. The world economic crisis forced Freire to know hunger and poverty at a young age. He recalls in Moacir Gadotti’s book, Reading Paulo Freire, “I didn’t understand anything because of my hunger.
I wasn’t dumb.
Teorias personalistas paulo freire biography
It wasn’t lack of interest. My social condition didn’t allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge” (5). Because Freire lived among poor rural families and laborers, he gained a deep understanding of their lives and of the effects of socio-economics on education.
Freire became a grammar teacher while still in high school.
Even then his intuition pushed him toward a dialogic education in which he strived to understand students’ expectations (5). While on the Faculty of Law in Reci