1. Forthcoming Events
(Activities/Events)

... - 16-19 February, 2010. Connecting global issues and local experience. More» Inspire - Faith into Action - 20 February, 2010. A day for Christians to explore tools for mission in their local communities. ...

2. Accreditation of Freire practitioners
(News/Latest)

... in relevant practice - in their professional work or as activists and volunteers - that forms an essential part of their knowledge.  Including this experience in any accreditation programme is vital. ...

3. Easter Experience
(Paulo Freire/Concepts Used by Paulo Freire)

Paulo Freire says that "those who authentically commit themselves to the people must re-examine themselves constantly.  This conversion is so radical as not to allow for ambivalent behaviour...  ...

4. Infact - Intercultural Formation and Action
(Category)

Training for transformation INFACT (Intercultural Formation and Action) programmes are geared towards reflection on underlying values and motivations, a detailed analysis of our communities, the elaboration ...

5. Organizer Workshops
(Category)

Organizing for change There is no better educational process than to be organizing and taking action for change but simply taking action is not enough.  There needs to be a focus on learning from experience, ...

6. Global Education
(Category)

Connecting global issues and local experience Education is central to all of our work.  We employ a model of education derived largely from the work of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, in which there ...

7. Inspire
(Category)

... The four areas overlap at various points in a continuous process of action, reflection action, as participants seek to find the connections that will help them re-evaluate their experience. The programme ...

8. Paulo Freire
(Section)

... feature of Freire-type education is that people bring their own knowledge and experience into the process.  Training is typically undertaken in small groups with lively interaction and can embrace not ...

9. Learning
(Section)

Community-based Learning We offer a model of learning which is not dry and academic but is based upon sharing our experience and using the 'social knowledge' that we all have.  In this model of learning ...

10. About
(Section)

The Freire Institute is an organization for community-based learning.  In our programmes your own knowledge and life experience becomes the raw material for education.  We are named after the Brazilian ...