![]() ![]() ![]() Since the presidential campaign in 2018, Mr. A Bolsonaro campaign against the Freire legacy Bolsonaro’s supporters, disseminated messages of hate against Freire, blaming him for the Brazilian education system’s failures and deriding him as a communist. While progressives honored the legacy of the man who opened a new path in the relationship between teachers and students-in conceptual breakthroughs that had broad consequences in different areas of knowledge-conservatives, especially among Mr. Bolsonaro’s semi-official campaign against Freire-there were apparently plans even to remove his statue from outside the Ministry of Education-but the war between his admirers and his critics in Brazil remains intense on social media. The court decision may shut down some of Mr. The same week of the Freire centenary, President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration was forbidden by a judge’s ruling to attack Freire’s legacy, calling the president’s various comments and institutional moves against Freire an abuse of the freedom of expression. ![]() ![]() Brazil’s celebration in September of the centennial of Paulo Freire (1921-1997), the educator and philosopher behind Pedagogy of the Oppressed, was overshadowed by the nation’s ongoing political polarization. ![]()
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