Education for awareness: a talk with Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire was born in 1920, in Recife, Brazil. In 1947, he began working with illiterate adults in northeastern Brazil, and gradually perfected a working method with which the word awareness* has been associated. Until 1964, he was professor of History and Philosophy of Education at the Universit...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositório: | Revista de Arqueologia Pública |
| Idioma: | português |
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| Palavra-chave: | Paulo Freire Archeology of awareness Interview Literacy Alfabetização Entrevista Arqueologia da consciência Literatura Arqueología de la conciencia |
| Resumo: | Paulo Freire was born in 1920, in Recife, Brazil. In 1947, he began working with illiterate adults in northeastern Brazil, and gradually perfected a working method with which the word awareness* has been associated. Until 1964, he was professor of History and Philosophy of Education at the University of Recife and, in the 1960s, he became involved in a popular education movement to deal with mass illiteracy. From 1962 onwards, there was extensive experimentation with its method and the movement was extended with the support of the Federal Government, so that in 1963-64 there were courses for coordinators in all Brazilian states and a plan was drawn up so that 2000 Circles of Culture were established, aiming to reach 2,000,000 illiterates! Freire was arrested after the 1964 coup d'état, because of what the “new order” considered to be subversive elements in his work as a teacher. He then went into exile in Chile, where his method was used and the UN School of Political Sciences presented seminars on his work. In 1969-70 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard's Center for the Study of Development and Social Change. In 1970 he took up the post of Special Adviser at the Office of Education of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Professor Freire is married and has five children. His texts include several books and articles in Portuguese, French, Spanish and German. In English, the Harvard Education Review (in May and September 1970) published Cultural Action for Freedom and in November 1970 the Herder & Herder in New York published Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This interview took place in Geneva on 15 November 1970. |
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