Friere was imprisoned for more than two months as a traitor and exiled soon after. In 1964, Brazil’s president was ousted in a coup d’état and replaced by a military government, which found Freire’s programs too subversive. These programs often experimented with their methods, and they saw success in raising Brazil’s literacy rates. Freire spent much of the 1950s and 60s implementing literacy programs for poor people in Brazil, often with the support of the Brazilian government, and this work directly informs Freire’s writings. In 1944 he married Elza Oliveira, a primary school teacher who encouraged him to develop his theories on education, and the two had five children together. After studying law, he began his career teaching Portuguese in secondary schools.
Born in 1921, Freire grew up in the northeast of Brazil, where he often came in contact with the poverty that plagued Latin America during the Great Depression.
Paulo Freire was an educator and theorist whose work is important to the field of education studies.
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