In 1968, Paulo Freire, a famous Brazilian philosopher, authored the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a Marxist argument for using education to empower the downtrodden. In 2013, a charter school named ...

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is corrupting our teachers. Freire’s influence has not been confined to the realm of theory. Already, back in 1986, a New York Times report on Freire’s tour of ...

Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2024. Freire was not merely an academic; he was a revolutionary, a fierce champion of the oppressed whose lifelong ...

You might expect the required readings of U.S. teacher-training programs to contain good practical tips on classroom management or sensible advice on teaching, say, reading to disadvantaged students.

The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) is proud to host an upcoming series of monthly conversations organized and moderated by CSLP Student Affiliate Vitor Yano. This series will ...

Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," first published in 1968 in Portuguese, has never been out of print. Freire (1921-1997, pronounced "Fray-IR-ay"), a Brazilian educator, knew poverty and ...

This short essay examines Paulo Freire's extraordinary influence in popular democratic politics in South Africa and in the 1970s and 1980s. First published in Portuguese in 1968 Paulo Freire's ...

In the name of "solving" the crisis in education, the so-called school "reformers" are pushing solutions that scapegoat teachers and vilify their unions. LIKE THE demands for bilingual education that ...