Philosopher of Liberating Education
Paulo Freire
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A Brazilian educator who taught adults to read by starting from words in their own lives, was jailed and exiled after Brazil’s 1964 coup, and argued that education either fits people into their world or helps them change it.
Key work: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
“To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Learners are not empty accounts to be filled.
Teacher and student can learn from each other in dialogue.
Learning to read the word goes with learning to read the world.
Read more: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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