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ERIC Number: EJ368831
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Paulo Freire: Advocate of Literacy through Liberation.
Timpson, William M.
Educational Leadership, v45 n5 p62-66 Feb 1988
As head of Brazil's literacy campaign, educator Paulo Freire discovered that overwhelming student apathy required restructuring his values toward empowering instead of controlling students. For education to be linked to progress at an individual level, curriculum must emanate partly from the learners' lives. Includes five references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Biographies, Change, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Brazil; Freire (Paulo)