Paulo Freire Online Resources

Critical Views of Paulo Freire's Work

Helpful list of various scholars' responses to Freire.
By John Ohliger
<http://www.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/Ohliger1.html>

Education as Liberation: Maria Montessori and Paolo Freire

Information on the careers of Paulo Freire and Maria Montessori.
<http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/montess_freire1.html>

The Freirean Approach to Adult Literacy Education

Helpful introduction to Freire's educational theory.
By David Spener, National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
<http://www.cal.org/NCLE/Digests/FreireQA.htm>

Freire and Papert

Translated transcript of a discussion between Seymour Papert and the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paolo Freire, which took place in Brazil during the late 1980s. It was sponsored by Pontifícia Universidade Católica, the Catholic University of São Paulo and the Afternoon Journal TV show. It was broadcast in Brazil by TV PUC São Paulo and KTV Solucoes.
<http://www.papert.org/articles/freire/freirePart1.html>

Freire Biography

National-Louis University's Department of Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) site.
<http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Freire.html>

Freire Profile

Freire Bio, by Sebastian Foti, College of Education University of Florida, on his Great Ideas in Education site.
<http://www.coe.ufl.edu/webtech/GreatIdeas/>
<http://www.coe.ufl.edu/webtech/GreatIdeas/pages/peoplepage/freire.htm>

History, Praxis, and Change: Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy

Introduction to Freire and his work in the light of his contemporary critics, followed by an interview with Freire.
Gary A. Olson. JAC 12.1 (1992).
<http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/12.1/Articles/1.htm>

Instituto Paulo Freire
[Paulo Freire Institute (PFI)]

An international non-profit institution, consisting of a worldwide network of people and institutions, devoted to extending Freire's scholarship.
<http://www.paulofreire.org/>

Issues in Freirean Pedagogy

Helpful introduction to Freirean terms.
By Tom Heaney, associate professor in the Department of Adult and Continuing Education at National-Louis University and director of the ACE Doctoral Program
<http://www.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/FreireIssues.html>

Paulo Freire

Biography, links, bibliography.
By Leslie Bentley, located on the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed site.
<http://www.unomaha.edu/~pto/paulo.htm>

Paulo Freire and Informal Education

Freire Biography and relation of Freire's work to informal education.
By Mark K. Smith, located at infed.org: The Home of Informal Education
<http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm>

Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism Henry A. Giroux
Article by renowned contemporary critical pedagogue, Henry Giroux. Giroux argues that Paulo Freire's work must be read as a postcolonial text and that North Americans, in particular, must engage in a radical form of border crossing in order to reconstruct Freire's work in the specificity of its historical and political construction.
JAC 12.1 (1992).
<http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/12.1/Articles/2.htm>