![]() ![]() This experience greatly influenced Freire’s philosophy, pedagogy, and politics. ![]() Freire’s model, developed to empower the oppressed, encouraged students to critique the educational situation as well as the subject, highlighted the connections between individual problems and their social context, and emphasized the importance of a dialectical coordination of inquiry and learning process.īorn to middle class parents, his father’s death during the Depression impoverished the family. As such, he argued a pedagogical approach should be developed with rather than for the students, especially those who come from oppressed, marginalized populations. Freire considered education a force for empowerment and liberation. Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a Brazilian philosopher and educator, best known for his model of “critical consciousness,” a forerunner of critical pedagogy. ![]()
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