This article is about the educator. For the astronomer, see Paulo Freire (astronomer).
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Neves and the second or paternal family name is Freire.
Paulo Freire
Freire in 1977
Born
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
(1921-09-19)19 September 1921
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died
2 May 1997(1997-05-02) (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)
[1]
Scholarly background
Influences
Zevedei Barbu[2]
John Dewey[3]
Frantz Fanon[4]
Erich Fromm[5]
Antonio Gramsci[6]
Saul Alinsky
Gustavo Gutiérrez[7]
G. W. F. Hegel[8]
Tan Malaka
Herbert Marcuse[9]
Jacques Maritain[10]
Emmanuel Mounier[11]
Karl Marx[12]
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Memmi[4]
Álvaro Vieira Pinto[13]
Jean-Paul Sartre[14]
Anísio Teixeira[15]
Miguel de Unamuno[16]
Simone Weil[2]
Scholarly work
Discipline
Pedagogy
philosophy
School or tradition
Christian socialism
critical pedagogy
Marxism
Marxist humanism
Doctoral students
Mario Sergio Cortella
Notable works
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
Notable ideas
Banking model of education
critical consciousness
Influenced
Fazle Hasan Abed[17]
Marcella Althaus-Reid
Stanley Aronowitz[15]
Christine Ballengee-Morris[18]
Ana Mae Barbosa [es; pt][19]
Steve Biko
Augusto Boal
Leonardo Boff[15]
Francisco Brennand[20]
Fernando Cardenal[21]
Enrique Martinez Celaya
Vicky Colbert[22]
James H. Cone[15]
Antonia Darder
Mestre Ferradura
Ramón Flecha[23]
Moacir Gadotti [pt][24]
Henry Giroux[15]
Cees Hamelink[25]
bell hooks[26]
Didacus Jules
Karen Keifer-Boyd[27]
Joe L. Kincheloe[15]
James D. Kirylo[28]
Jonathan Kozol[15]
Khen Lampert
Colin Lankshear[29]
Allan Luke[30]
Donaldo Macedo[15]
Ignacio Martín-Baró[31]
Peter Mayo[32]
Alan McCombes
Peter McLaren[33]
Jack Mezirow
Oscar Mogollon
G. Nammalvar
Gino Piccio
Majid Rahnema
Howard Richards
Marshall Rosenberg[34]
Ira Shor[35]
Shirley R. Steinberg[15]
Carlos Alberto Torres[15]
María Guillermina Valdes Villalva
Cornel West[36]
Signature
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Major writings
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Sermon on the Mount
A Theology of Liberation
Organizations
Catholic Worker
Christians on the Left
Blue Labour
United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Christian Socialist Party (Hungary)
Christians for Socialism
Christians on the Left
Parti du socialisme chrétien
Related
Catholic social teaching
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Option for the poor
Universal destination of goods
Social mortgage
Christian left
Distributism
Social gospel
Sabbath economics
Koinonia
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Critical pedagogy
Major works
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Critical Pedagogy Primer
Learning to Labour
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life
Theorists
Paulo Freire
Henry Giroux
Peter McLaren
bell hooks
Antonia Darder
Joe Kincheloe
Shirley Steinberg
Paul Willis
Ira Shor
Pedagogy
Anti-oppressive education
Abolitionist teaching
Anti-bias curriculum
Antipedagogy
Multicultural education
Educational inequality
Curriculum studies
Teaching for social justice
Humanitarian education
Inclusion
Inquiry-based learning
Student-centred learning
Public sphere pedagogy
Popular education
Feminist composition
Ecopedagogy
Queer pedagogy
Critical literacy
Critical reading
Critical consciousness
Critical theory of maker education
Concepts
Praxis
Hidden curriculum
Consciousness raising
Related
Reconstructivism
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire[a] (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,[37][38][39] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016[update] according to Google Scholar.[40]
^Stone 2013, p. 45.
^ abKirkendall 2010, p. 21.
^Clare n.d.; Díaz n.d..
^ abArney 2007, p. 30; Clare n.d.; Díaz n.d..
^Clare n.d.; Díaz n.d.; Lake & Dagostino 2013, pp. 101–102.
^Díaz n.d.; Mayo 2013, p. 53.
^Clare n.d.; Reynolds 2013, p. 140.
^Blunden 2013, p. 11; Clare n.d.; Díaz n.d.; Ordóñez 1981, p. 100.
^Kahn & Kellner 2008, p. 30.
^Clare n.d.; Peters & Besley 2015, p. 3.
^Rocha 2018, pp. 371–372.
^Clare n.d.; Díaz n.d.; Kress & Lake 2013, p. 30; Lake & Dagostino 2013, p. 111; Ordóñez 1981, pp. 100–101.
^Ordóñez 1981, pp. 100–101; Peters & Besley 2015, p. 3.
^ abcdefghijDíaz n.d.
^Rocha 2018, pp. 371–372, 379.
^Fateh 2020, p. 2.
^"Review Board | Visual Culture & Gender".
^Ballengee Morris 2008, pp. 55, 60, 65.
^Ballengee Morris 2008, p. 55.
^Kirylo 2011, pp. 244–245.
^Luschei & Soto-Peña 2019, p. 122.
^Flecha 2013, p. 21.
^Kohan 2018, p. 619.
^Prodnik & Hamelink 2017, p. 271.
^Díaz n.d.; Kirylo 2011, pp. 251–252.
^"Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D." Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
^Kirylo 2011, p. xxii.
^Lankshear, Colin; Peters, Michael A. (2020). "There, for Fortune: An 'Accidental' Academic Life. Part 1: From 'Rights' to 'Literacy'". PESA Agora. Philosophy of Education Society of Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
^"Our Programs | Georgia Conflict Center". Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
^Díaz n.d.; Kirylo 2011, p. 267.
^Díaz n.d.; Kirylo 2011, p. 269.
^Wyllie, Justin (7 June 2012) [2010]. "Review of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed". The New Observer. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^Barmania, Sima (26 October 2011). "Why Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' Is Just as Relevant Today as Ever". The Independent Blogs. The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 30 April 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^"Paulo Freire". infed. 2002. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^Elliott D. Green (12 May 2016). "What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?". LSE Research Online. London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
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