Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

Paulo Freire pedagogy of oppresed

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...

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 ...

Sex differentials in survival in the Canadian population, 1921-1997

This paper demonstrates how intensity regression and methods for visualizing demographic data can be applied to the study of sex differentials in survival in the Canadian population over the period 1921-1997. In general the results indicate that death rates declined differently for males and females and that the rate of mortality decline was not constant over age or over time. The global patter...