Born:Paulo Reglus Neves Freire, (1921-09-19)19 September 1921, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died:2 May 1997(1997-05-02) (aged 75), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Spouses:Elza Freire (m. 1944; died 1986), , Ana Maria Araújo Freire (m. 1988)
Education:Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Discipline:Pedagogy, , philosophy
Influenced:Fazle Hasan Abed, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Stanley Aronowitz, Christine Ballengee-Morris, Ana Mae Barbosa, Steve Biko, Augusto Boal, Leonardo Boff, Francisco Brennand, Fernando Cardenal, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Vicky Colbert, James H. Cone, Antonia Darder, Mestre Ferradura, Ramón Flecha, Moacir Gadotti [pt], Henry Giroux, Cees Hamelink, bell hooks, Didacus Jules, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Joe L. Kincheloe, James D. Kirylo, Jonathan Kozol, Khen Lampert, Colin Lankshear, Allan Luke[verification needed], Donaldo Macedo, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Peter Mayo, Alan McCombes, Peter McLaren, Jack Mezirow, Oscar Mogollon, G. Nammalvar, Gino Piccio, Majid Rahnema, Howard Richards, Marshall Rosenberg, Ira Shor, Shirley R. Steinberg, Carlos Alberto Torres, María Guillermina Valdes Villalva, Cornel West
Influences:Zevedei Barbu, , John Dewey, , Frantz Fanon, , Erich Fromm, , Antonio Gramsci, , Saul Alinsky, , Gustavo Gutiérrez, , G. W. F. Hegel, , Tan Malaka, , Herbert Marcuse, , Jacques Maritain, , Emmanuel Mounier, , Karl Marx, , Sigmund Freud, , Charles Darwin, , Friedrich Nietzsche, , Albert Memmi, , Álvaro Vieira Pinto, , Jean-Paul Sartre, , Anísio Teixeira, , Miguel de Unamuno, , Simone Weil
Notable ideas:Banking model of education, , critical consciousness
Notable works:Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
Political party:Workers' Party
School or tradition:Christian socialism, , critical pedagogy, , Marxism, , Marxist humanism