Kaushik
08 Jan 2006, 12:05 AM
Seeing the threads on literature on this site, I wanted to know about Freire. Paulo Freire (1921 - 1997), the Brazilian educationalist, has left a significant mark on thinking about progressive practice. His Pedagogy of the Oppressed is currently one of the most quoted educational texts. Freire was able to draw upon, and weave together, a number of strands of thinking about educational practice and liberation. What is the status he enjoyed in Brazil? How is he viewed over there? Is his style widely prevalent in the country?
AuriVerde
09 Jan 2006, 01:49 AM
I guess it might shed some light for you,mate:
"Paulo Freire, citizen of the world as he own affirmed, is received by the PUC-SP after long exile. In this University, in the Program of Post- Graduation in Education: Curriculum, taught, oriented and researched during the his last 18 years of academic activity, when came to pass away in 1997.
In homage to the memory of the greatest educator of the country, that the world consecrated as one of the greatest of this century, University PUC-SP created the Professorship(Cátedra) Paulo Freire in 1998. A space privileged for the development of researches and studies in post-graduation about the work of Paulo Freire and its theoretical-practical repercussions for the education and related areas, inside and outside of Brazil.
The Professorship Paulo Freire, under the coordination of the Professor Doctor Ana Maria Saul, since the second semester of 1999 to the present days, comes focusing thematic as: "Paulo Freire: 30 years of the Education of the Opressed", "Paulo Freire: the contemporary pedagogical matrices, history and processe", "Paulo Freire and the formation of the educator: theory and practical", "Paulo Freire and the social movements", "THE influence of the thought of Paulo Freire in the setting of the Brazilian public education: political, theory and practical". "