Assignment 1b

http://www.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/paulofreire.cfm
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm


The first thing that I think is very important that Paulo Freire did was to become a teacher and spend his time to help others with their lives. Even though he had different degrees and jobs he dedicated his life to being an educator for adults. He spent his life helping people to better their lives and get people help out of poverty. If he hadn’t done what he had done, many people wouldn’t have the life they ended up with.

The second thing that I think that Freire did that was very important was all his theoretical innovations he made with educations. His five focuses were on dialogue, praxis, conscientization, experience, and metaphors. His teaching was largely based on informal education but yet it still involved some structured education. Freire still incorporated curriculum, but it taught people in different settings that were more appropriate for some His ideas involved more social aspects, making people participate together with reading and writing. He taught people to read and write with his theories with in 30 hours. He wanted to move away from the way of education that was in effect he called it “banking”. I think that without his theories for education, many people would not succeed in school; people need different ideas then the tradition to learn. With his ideas on education people in the world would leave lead different lives then they do today.

The third thing in my opinion that Freire did that was important was to travel the world were he was offered jobs after being exiled from Brazil. He traveled to Chile, the United States, Switzerland, etc. He took things that he observed and learned and incorporated it into his second book called Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his more famous of the two. By incorporating what he learned about all countries being in the United States he was able to improve his work that he did on education and share with people his ideas. As I said above by sharing his ideas, he was able to get his educational concepts around the world even more then he had by traveling and teaching.