1. 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. ...

2. Banking concept of knowledge
(Paulo Freire/Concepts Used by Paulo Freire)

The concept of education in which "knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing". ...

3. Praxis (Action/Reflection)
(Paulo Freire/Concepts Used by Paulo Freire)

It is not enough for people to come together in dialogue in order to gain knowledge of their social reality.  They must act together upon their environment in order critically to reflect upon their ...

4. Dialogue
(Paulo Freire/Concepts Used by Paulo Freire)

... she knows and realize that through dialogue existing thoughts will change and new knowledge will be created. ...

5. Global Education
(Category)

... is no strict division between teachers and learners and in which knowledge is seen as something actively created rather than as a fixed ‘stock’ dispensed by experts to passive recipients. Education in ...

6. Paulo Freire
(Section)

... educational process is never neutral. People can be passive recipients of knowledge — whatever the content — or they can engage in a ‘problem-posing’ approach in which they become active participants. ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...