Paulo Freire
1921-1997 · Liberation · Prominent
Freire was a Brazilian educator who attacked what he called banking education, where a teacher deposits facts into students who sit and receive them. Teaching a farm worker to read meant teaching him to name the conditions of his own life and to see that they could be remade, a waking up Freire called conscientization. Learners are subjects of history. Pedagogy of the Oppressed came out in 1968.
Signature
The position Freire is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Society
- leans Collectivism
- Ethics Basis
- Relational
Positions on the 5 axes the sources answer
- Society
- leans Collectivism (25 on a 0–100 scale from Collectivism to Individualism)
- Meaning
- leans Inherent (75 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Order
- leans Horizontal (75 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage (17 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
- Allegiance
- leans Global (75 on a 0–100 scale from Local to Global)
15 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Freire refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Direct Democracy / Communal Order
What is your ideal form of government? - Highest Good
- Freedom
What is the highest good? - Good and Evil
- Social Invention
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - Knowledge
- Power-Knowledge
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Relational
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Radical Freedom / Social Determinism
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Authority
- Collective Will
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Language
- Speech Act / Social Construction
What is the fundamental nature of language? - Human Nature
- Existence Precedes Essence
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- Cause
What is your primary bond and loyalty?