How to pronounce paulo freire

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PAULO

FREIRE

PAULO FREIRE (pronounce it "Fr-air-ah" unless you can make a Portuguese "r") was one of the most influen­ tial radical educators of our world. A native of Recife, Brazil, he spent most of his early career working in poverty-stricken areas of his homeland, developing meth­ ods for teaching illiterate adults to read and write and (as he would say) to think critically and, thereby, to take power over their own lives. Because he has created a class­ room where teachers and students have equal power and equal dignity, his work has stood as a model for educators

around the world. It led also to sixteen years of exile after the milit