EFFECTS OF PAULO FREIRE THEORY TO MEDIA INFORMATION LITERACY

JHONATTA MARTINS LEALCHIBA UNIVERSITY – DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION – MASTER COURSE

Movement of Media Information Literacy

Year/Declaratio

n

Target Charge Area Management

Skill Literacy

１９８２Grünwald

Student Educator School Education

School Information Understandi

ng

Media,Computer

Information

２００５Alexandria

+Citizen Educator Lifelong Learning

Government Information Understandi

ng and Developmen

t

Internet（ SNS）

２００７Paris

Citizen Teacher Education

Lifelong Learning

GovernmentInternational

Exchange

Professional

Knowledge,Change in

Society

DigitalMovie

Paulo Freire（ 1921-1997）• Brazilian Educator；• Student’s Culture， Language Observation；• Accused of Communism during the Brazilian Coup d’etat

(1964)

• Exile　–　 Book: Pedagogy of the Oppressed（ 1968）；

Paulo FreireContributions to Education

• Oppressed：Understand the world around themselves in order to change their reality;• Awareness　（Conscientização);

• Banking Model of Education;

• Introduction of dialogue in the classroom;• Dialogue between teacher and student• Reading the world always precedes reading the word; （ Students experience

society before school）

• Humanization（Humanização）• Human life has meaning only from the relentless pursuit of liberation from

everything that dehumanizes us.

The Paulo Freire Method• Originally an adult education method;

• 1962: taught reading/writing for 300 sugar-cane workers in 45 days without using textbooks;

• 3 steps method:1. Aquaintance with the students’ previous knowledge ；

2. Social analysis of the words and themes – from common sense to a critical view ；

3. Challenge the students to go beyond the simple, non-critical view of the world.

Paulo Freire and Media Literacy

Media Literacy Today• Information environment;• Ease in spreading information ；

• Overwhelming number of information sources;

• Change in children environment: TV, games, internet, music, etc.;

• Passive exposure to media/information;

• Digitally Excluded.

Paulo Freire and Media Literacy• Media Education as Social Movement ；

• Critical and Active users ；• Maintenance of values and identities ；• 1982: Grünwald Declaration 　→　 Awareness ；

•Understanding student’s background ；• Children born inside an information society ；• Contextualization of school subjects ；

• “Rather than condemn or endorse the undoubted power of the media, we need to accept their significant impact and penetration throughout the world as an established fact, and also appreciate their importance as an element of culture in today’s world.” ；（ Grünwald, 1982)