Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator (1921–1997) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Marxist 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,[37][38][39] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016[update] according to Google Scholar.[40]
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