ĭuring his childhood and adolescence, Freire ended up four grades behind, and his social life revolved around playing pick-up football with other poor children, from whom he claims to have learned a great deal. In 1931 his family moved to the more affordable city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, 18 km west of Recife. He became familiar with poverty and hunger from an early age as a result of the Great Depression. įreire was born on 19 September 1921 to a middle-class family in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar. Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – ) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.
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