![]() ![]() Freire’s life and challengesįreire spent his formative years in the city of Recife in the State of Pernambuco, a city for which Freire always held a tremendous affection. ![]() It would be appropriate to introduce this issue by highlightinig important episodes in his life. We do so by bringing together some of the greatest interpreters of Freire’s work, people who have elaborated his ideas or reinvented them in different contexts, also adding to them by virtue of insights derived from these different places and encounters. It has been 20 years since Paulo Freire passed away> It is fitting therefore that we devote this issue of Rizoma Freiriano to him. ![]() To provide one example, a recent text advocating a critical approach to community development (Ledwith, 2005) considers Freire’s pedagogical and political philosophy central to the strategy being outlined. In fact his impact has been large enough to affect thinking in such areas as social work, communications, nursing, community development, theology, philosophy and sociology. Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (1921-1997) is surely one of the most cited and iconic figures in the contemporary education literature. ![]()
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