In this piece we assess these – and briefly examine some of the critiques that can be made of his work. He wasn’t – John Dewey would probably take that honour – but Freire certainly made a number of important theoretical innovations that have had a considerable impact on the development of educational practice – and on informal education and popular education in particular. ‘the most significant educational thinker of the twentieth century’. Sometimes some rather excessive claims are made for his work e.g. Freire was able to draw upon, and weave together, a number of strands of thinking about educational practice and liberation.
His Pedagogy of the Oppressed is currently one of the most quoted educational texts (especially in Latin America, Africa and Asia). Paulo Freire (1921 – 1997), the Brazilian educationalist, has left a significant mark on thinking about progressive practice. Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Paulo Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed. Paulo Freire, dialogue, praxis and education.
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