PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 27 Commemoration of Paulo Freire

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 27 Commemoration of Paulo Freire Bimal Phnuyal Introduction thoughts and actions are becoming more relevant than ever before. It is encouraging to Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, was one of witness that, in a recent colloquium in the most influential philosophers of his Bangladesh, many commemorators warned generation. His classic work, "Pedagogy of the against the danger of the ritualisation of Freire. The empowered learning behaviour of the Oppressed", was published in 1972 and he died commemorators suggested that it is more in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May 1997. Freire' s important to apply Freirean learning spirit rather thoughts and vision help us to clarify many complicated questions related to life, learning than following Freire as a dogma. and liberation. In the same way the struggles involved in his own life give impetus for us to Learning from life continue the journey of life and, in Freire's words, "not to die in life". Freire has been a key Paulo Freire was born in 1921 in Recife, in the influence on the development of REFLECT. north-east of Brazil. Recife was characterised by This article aims to provide an overview of his sharp dichotomies between poor ...