GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
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His personal life was bland and he didn’t listen to teachers.
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Political disadvantages of poorer people in his country (Brazil)
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He was curious in sociology
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Best known for his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire believed that education was a means to building a “critical consciousness” that would enable people to create change in their lives. His work has influenced many of our educational and civic programmes including Implicated Theatre, Youth Forum and ACT ESOL.
Detailed explanation-2: -In educational circles, Freire is regarded as one of the founding figures of critical pedagogy. He is best known for his adult literacy programs in impoverished communities and for his classic early text: Pedagogy of the Oppressed. As a writer, he was most prolific in the last ten years of his life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educationalist and philosopher whose radical ideas about pedagogy, learning and knowledge led to the establishment of the critical pedagogy movement. Freire held extremely negative views of mainstream approaches to education, using the metaphor of the “banking” system to describe them.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Freire’s view, education is a practice of freedom, and education should be an activity of freedom (Freire, 1970) . Therefore, the teacher should understand the method of how to maintain the opportunity of freedom to the learner in the educational process.