Here he began to see more disconnections between elitist educational practices and the real lives of the working class. Gadotti asserts that it was Elza who influenced Freire to intensely pursue his studies, and helped him to elaborate his groundbreaking educational methods.įreire’s arsenal of educational thought began to manifest with his appointment in 1946 as director of Education at SESI, an employer’s institution set up to help workers and their families (Gadotti, 6). They married in 1944 when Freire was 23 and eventually had five children, three of whom became educators (4). While on the Faculty of Law in Recife, Freire met his wife, Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher and an important force in his life. Even then his intuition pushed him toward a dialogic education in which he strived to understand students’ expectations (5). Because Freire lived among poor rural families and laborers, he gained a deep understanding of their lives and of the effects of socio-economics on education.įreire became a grammar teacher while still in high school. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge” (5). My social condition didn’t allow me to have an education. He recalls in Moacir Gadotti’s book, Reading Paulo Freire, “I didn’t understand anything because of my hunger. The world economic crisis forced Freire to know hunger and poverty at a young age. He grew up in the Northeast of Brazil where his experiences deeply influenced his life work. EDUCATOR PAULO FREIRE was born September 19, 1921.
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