PAULO FREIRE'S REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO LITERACY STILL THREATENS THOSE IN POWER
( education / language / reading )

In 1963, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire helped launch a revolutionary literacy campaign in the impoverished northeastern Brazilian town of Angicos, where hundreds of rural workers learned to read and write in just 40 hours of instruction. Freires approach was about much more than literacy. Rather than emphasizing memorization and repetition, he d... read more