Paulo 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
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]
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Major writings Sermon on the Mount Matthew 6:24 Cleansing of the Temple Jesus and the rich young man Acts 2 Epistle of James The Kingdom of God Is Within You Pedagogy of the Oppressed A Theology of Liberation
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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a collaborative act of liberation rather than transmission. A founder of critical pedagogy, Freire’s influence spans literacy movements, liberation theology, postcolonial education, and contemporary theories of social justice and learning. He is widely regarded as one of the most important educational theorists of the twentieth century, alongside figures such as John Dewey and Maria Montessori, and considered "the Grandfather of Critical Theory."