Paulo Freire Short Biography

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (1921 - 1997)

A Short Photo Biography

Recife, Brazil

Recife, Brazil, 1900’s

Recife .

Line of jobless men waiting for free food during the great depression.

A middle class family during the great depression.

1929“I could not understand the lessons of primary

school. I got zero. I cried, I suffered. I was hungry and feeling guilty.

[Because of his bad grades.]”

1939"I began to eat more," says Freire, "and then I

began to understand everything.“

Freire was 18 years old.

Faculty and Directors OfficeUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco

Freire is a secondary school teacher and a language teacher (Portuguese)

College of LawUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco

He is studying law while teaching.

PHILOSOPHY

PHENOMENOLOGYPSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

Hi!

Elza Maria Costa de Oliveira

1944Elsa Maia Costa Oliveira, a Catholic elementary

schoolteacher and later on a school director. The couple has five children.

“Precisely after my marriage when I started to have a systematic interest in educational

problems." 

- Freire, Concientización, p. 17.

Social Service Industry (SESI)

Serviço Social da Indústria (SESI) Head QuartersBrasilia

A plaza in Angicos,

Rio Grande do

Norte

A meeting for the

trial program

of Freire’s Critical

Pedagogy Theory

Calazans Fernandes, secretário

de Educação do RN no

período do projeto de

Paulo Freire

Calazan Fernandez, Aluizio Alves, John Kennedy

Meeting with representatives of the Alliance for Progress from Latin America

Paulo Freire meeting with Aluizio Alvez

1964

The Chilean Christian Democratic Agrarian Reform Movement

View of Chilean vineyards in the foothills of the Andes.

1967

1969

Annenberg HallMassachusetts Hall

The ecumenical chapel, World Council of Churches head office, Geneva, Switzerland

1970

Brazilian welcomes the return of Paulo Freire

The Working Party

1979

Paulo and his wife Elza were awarded by the Association of Christian Educators in the US,

the prize of outstanding Christian educators

1985

1986Elza Maia Costa

Oliveira died

“Hindi ko kayang

tangapin...”

“Joke lang...”

Paulo Freire, Ana Maria

Araújo Freire, and Moacir

Gadotti

1986

New love-life

Department of EducationSau Paolo, Brazil

1989-1991

Alma Flor Ada, Paulo Freire, and Maria Araújo Freire

1991Retired to

work.

Meeting with officials of Agora, Brasil.

Revisiting Angicos, Brasil.

Paulo Freire’s literacy program for adults continues

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire

(1921 - 1997)

A Short Biography

Karen FernandezAlexis Obiena

2014