Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
	Freire in 1977
Born	Paulo Reglus Neves Freire; 19 September 1921; Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died	2 May 1997 (aged 75); São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Education	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Political party	Workers' Party
Spouses	Elza Freire (m. 1944; died 1986); Ana Maria Araújo Freire (m. 1988);
Scholarly background
Influences	Zevedei Barbu; John Dewey; Frantz Fanon; Erich Fromm; Antonio Gramsci; Saul Alinsky; Gustavo Gutiérrez; G. W. F. Hegel; Tan Malaka; Herbert Marcuse; Jacques Maritain; Emmanuel Mounier; Karl Marx; Sigmund Freud; Charles Darwin; Friedrich Nietzsche; Albert Memmi; Álvaro Vieira Pinto; Jean-Paul Sartre; Anísio Teixeira; Miguel de Unamuno; Simone Weil;
Scholarly work
Discipline	Pedagogy; philosophy;
School or tradition	Christian socialism; critical pedagogy;
Doctoral students	Mario Sergio Cortella
Notable works	Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
Notable ideas	Banking model of education; critical consciousness;
Influenced	Fazle Hasan Abed ; Marcella Althaus-Reid ; Stanley Aronowitz ; Christine Ballengee-Morris ; Ana Mae Barbosa ; Steve Biko ; Augusto Boal ; Leonardo Boff ; Francisco Brennand ; Fernando Cardenal ; Enrique Martinez Celaya ; Vicky Colbert ; James H. Cone ; Antonia Darder ; Mestre Ferradura ; Ramón Flecha ; Moacir Gadotti ; Henry Giroux ; Cees Hamelink ; bell hooks ; Didacus Jules ; Karen Keifer-Boyd ; Joe L. Kincheloe ; James D. Kirylo ; Jonathan Kozol ; Khen Lampert ; Colin Lankshear ; Allan Luke ; Donaldo Macedo ; Ignacio Martín-Baró ; Peter Mayo ; Alan McCombes ; Peter McLaren ; Jack Mezirow ; Oscar Mogollon ; G. Nammalvar ; Gino Piccio ; Majid Rahnema ; Howard Richards ; Marshall Rosenberg ; Ira Shor ; Shirley R. Steinberg ; Carlos Alberto Torres ; María Guillermina Valdes Villalva ; Cornel West ;
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar.

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