Over a lifetime of working with revolutionary organizers and educators both in exile and back in Brazil, Freire offers a compass to direct us towards liberation from structures of oppression. This approach, developed as much by Freire as the workers he educated, was so galvanizing that he was jailed and exiled by the Military Government within two years. These Culture Circles catalyzed thousands more with the purpose of not just literacy, but conscientization, which involves people joining with their peers to name their world by reflecting on their conditions, imagining a better world, and then taking action to create it. In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 suger-cane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote.
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