Brazil’s 1964 coup jailed Freire for his literacy work

Evidence

Freire, of course, was dismissed of his duties to conduct his literacy work. He was taken into police custody where he was interrogated, accused of being communist and a subversive. He spent the next two and a half months in jail, where he used his time “thinking things over” (Freire, 1985, p. 180), and began his first major work Educação como Practica da Liberdade (Education as the Practice of Freedom) (Collins, 1977). It is in this work that we see the emergence of Freire’s philosophy, discussing the workings of cultural circles and how the making of generative words aids in literacy learning, while at the same time underscoring the harmful effects of colonial Brazil (Freire, 1994; Gadotti, 1994). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 106

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of mass literacy for the voter rolls helped trigger Brazil’s 1964 coup — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 105; Brazil’s literacy plan ended when the 1964 coup overthrew Goulart — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 101; A military coup halted Brazil’s national literacy plan and exiled Freire — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 587

Broader Connections

• A military coup halted Brazil’s national literacy plan and exiled Freire #corroborates (0.92) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 587