Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is corrupting our teachers. Freire’s influence has not been confined to the realm of theory. Already, back in 1986, a New York Times report on Freire’s tour of ...

You might expect the required readings of U.S. teacher-training programs to contain good practical tips on classroom management or sensible advice on teaching, say, reading to disadvantaged students.

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In 1968, Paulo Freire, a famous Brazilian philosopher, authored the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a Marxist argument for using education to empower the downtrodden. In 2013, a charter school named ...

Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," first published in 1968 in Portuguese, has never been out of print. Freire (1921-1997, pronounced "Fray-IR-ay"), a Brazilian educator, knew poverty and ...

The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) is proud to host an upcoming series of monthly conversations organized and moderated by CSLP Student Affiliate Vitor Yano. This series will ...

Paulo Freire is one of the century's great thinkers on education and the politics of liberation. Known mostly for his literacy campaigns in Latin America and Africa, and for his seminal work Pedagogy ...

This short essay examines Paulo Freire's extraordinary influence in popular democratic politics in South Africa and in the 1970s and 1980s. First published in Portuguese in 1968 Paulo Freire's ...

In “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” Paulo Freire advocated for a teaching practice that shatters a town’s “culture of silence.” An irrepressible force against capitalism and hierarchy, Freire asked us to ...