Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
Educator Paulo Freire Fonds, 1921-1997
Paulo Freire is considered the most important Brazilian educator of all times To this day his legacy crosses and dissolves borders His ideas originated from his experiences as a teacher and social activist made him one of the most creative and genuine manifestations of the critical pedagogy that he himself had founded His thought influenced various fields of knowledge and inserted the socalled popular education in the world history of education He has created a theory of knowledge from an ethicalcriticalpoliticaleducational perspective and based on it he conceived a methodology for adult literacy having been designated as patron of Brazilian education law 12612 of April 13 2012 The Ana María Araújo Freire and Paulo Freire Institute is the custodian of these documents which constitute a fundamental reference for those who investigate the life and work of Paulo Freire and for those who seek to contribute to keeping alive and reinventing his legacy It is an extensive collection about topics such as popular education youth and adult education and literacy social movements political education ecopedagogy among others
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