Contribution of Paulo Freire: An Enduring, Eclectic Educator

Paulo Freire pedagogy of oppresed

Critical Literacy and Emancipatory Politics: the Work of Paulo Freire

This paper argues that Freire 's pedagogical ideas stand in marked reaction against a process of education characterised by prescription. In Freire 's view, such a process consolidates sharply defined power relations and therefore perpetuates oppressive social forms. It argues that contained in Freire 's pedagogy are the e lements for a model of an alternative society. In the first section, at ...

HIV/AIDS counseling: analysis based on Paulo Freire.

The study aimed to investigate the strategies health professionals use in HIV/AIDS counseling. This study is a qualitative research, based on Paulo Freire's theory and practice. Bardin's content analysis was used as the analysis technique. For the studied group, the counseling is focused on cognition, although new concepts permeating this subject are emerging. The main difficulties in counselin...

Medical education for social justice: Paulo Freire revisited.

Although social justice is an integral component of medical professionalism, there is little discussion in medical education about how to teach it to future physicians. Using adult learning theory and the work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, medical educators can teach a socially-conscious professionalism through educational content and teaching strategies. Such teaching can model non-hiera...

[Health promotion in primary care: study based on the Paulo Freire method].

The scope of this study is to analyze the implementation of health promotion actions in the working process of the Family Health Teams of a city in the state of Santa Catarina. It involves research adopting a qualitative approach linked to the methodological benchmark of Paulo Freire, consisting of three dialectic moments: thematic investigation; encoding and decoding; critical revelation. Fift...