Description: Seminar, four hours. Requisite: course C125 or C207 or prior knowledge of Freire's work. Analysis of intellectual production of Paulo Freire linked to social context in which it took place. Study of his life and work in five phases: Brazilian Experience (1921 to 1964); Chilean Experience, where he published Education as Practice of Freedom and Pedagogy of Oppressed, as well as other lesser-known works, while also devoting most of this period to empirical research in literacy training (1964 to 1969); his work at Harvard, and then World Council of Churches in Geneva (1970 to 1980), including his consulting with postcolonial revolutionary governments in Africa; his return to Brazil and his work as Secretary of Education in São Paulo (1989 to 1992); and his global travels from 1980 until his death in 1997. Focus on work left incomplete before his death (including eco-pedagogy and citizen's schools), and by implication his analyses, critiques, and impact in world, his methodology of generative word, and comparisons with other theoretical referents. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0