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Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator (1921–1997)
This article is about the educator. For the astronomer, see Paulo Freire (astronomer).
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Neves and the second or paternal family name is Freire.
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire[a] (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.
His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement,[38][39][40] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016[update] according to Google Scholar.[41]
Biography
Freire was born on 19 September 1921 to a middle-class family in Recife, the State Capital of Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast.
He became familiar with poverty and hunger from an early age partly due to the effects of the Great Depression. In