Assigment 1b

Paulo Freire was an intellectual Brazilian born in Recite, Pernambuco. Even though he studied law Paulo dedicated his entire life to education. He focused in taught poor people in Brazil and helps them to become literacy. That was the main reason why he was considered a traitor and suffered persecution in his country in the military dictatorship.

Paulo Freire accomplished many goals in his life. One of them was to be Director of the Department of Education and Culture of the Social Service in the State Pernambuco, He also become Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University. Although the most important achieves that professor Freire did were a professorship at Harvard University, and worked as a special education adviser to the World Council of Churches in Africa among others. In his return to Brazil Paulo joined the Worker Party in Sao Paulo and he become Secretary of Education.
Paulo Freire wrote several books, but the most important one was “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. This book was traduced into English and Spanish and published in 1970. He died in 1997 in Brazil after fifteen years of exile. He innovate the teaching system of his country and the world leaving behind the banking method, in which the student was an empty account waiting to be fill up by the teacher’s ideas.

Bibliography:
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/11_04/edit.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6bMBWvoPp8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVz_AOFuZ_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemcNyIgxFs