The present entry of this blog be about a person that is not directly related with the sociology but his work has contribute a lot to the type of sociology that I'm interested to develop. His name is Paulo Freire.

Paulo Freire was born in the decade of twenty  in Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco. He grew up in a precarious ambient that influenced the form and methodology of his work.  In 1943 he register in the University of Recife, in there He study laws and philosophy, but he didn't practice in this professions.  When Paulo Freire leaves the University, He starts to work in  the Culture and Education Department of  the Social Service, in the State of Pernambuco. In this work He has the first chance for apply his methodology, the "Popular Education". More late in 1961 He works in association with the University of Recife in the implementation of educational politics destined to solve the analfabetism of the rural people (the methodology not only are destined to this , also contain a political speech that try to recover the class identity and the liberation of the working-class). In 1964 he woks in Chile (He come here because in Brazil he was hound for the dictatorship)where he work with rural and popular-class groups and also publish his firsts books: the education how practice of liberation and the oppressed pedagogy (that was censored in chile when was publish). He died in Sao Paulo on May 2 of  1997.

I think that I admire Paulo Freire because he was a man involved with the people, not only in social activities also he was involved in the political formation of the working-class (and low class in general) people. And above all because with his work, Paulo Freire has got break the conventional methods of education that in general are made to contain and void (and repeat the culturals patterns of the dominant class) the thought of the people.