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Paulo Freire--my first inspiration
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Snea Thinsan
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May 30, 2003 01:24 PDT
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The most radical version of critical literacy practice in my view is
inspired by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and author. Read the
below excerpt from a web page about his life, and, if you're interested,
you can read more at the URL given at the end.
Keep having fun.
Snea
"Freire's life and work as an educator is optimistic in spite of
poverty, imprisonment, and exile. He is a world leader in the struggle
for the liberation of the poorest of the poor: the marginalized classes
who constitute the "cultures of silence" in many lands. On a planet
where more than half the people go hungry every day because nations are
incapable of feeding all their citizens, where we cannot yet agree that
every human being has a right to eat and to be housed, Paulo Freire
toils to help men and women overcome their sense of powerlessness to act
in their own behalf."
Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Freire.html
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