Philosopher
Paulo Freire
Overview
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work has affected global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a political act of liberation rather than critical cultural transmission of values. A founder of critical pedagogy, Freire’s influence spans literacy movements, liberation theology, postcolonial education, Marxism, and contemporary theories of social justice and learning. He is widely regarded as one of the most important educational theorists of the twentieth century, alongside figures such as John Dewey and Maria Montessori.
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Philosophers who discussed Paulo Freire
Ideas Paulo Freire discusses
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Geneva
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Dewey
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Marx
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Simone Weil
- Harvard University
- Literacy
- Marxism
- Great Depression
- Mozambique
- Bell hooks
- Professor
- Authoritarianism
- Plato
- Portuguese language
- Sigmund Freud
- Social class
- Advaita Vedanta
- Tabula rasa
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of education.