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