Recently, I've read an article by Peterson & Cox (Federal University of Mato Grosso, midwestern Brazil) about Critical pedagogy in ELT (English Language Teaching), and that's the way I found this graet Brazilian thinker!
These 2 mentioned researchers were to find out "what Brazilian English Teachers know about and think of critical pedagogy?"
Only 2 teachers (among the group of 40) acknowledged the political dimension of ELT; Brazil's economical,political, and cultural dependence on the United States; the global nature of the language; and the need to mistrust the underlying ideologies!
After reading this article, I started thinking of the reason that makes the world unwilling to talk about Frieire's ideologies!
There is no need to be an ELT student to enjoy Friere's beautiful mind; just go on and read...It's a pity to lose it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~stevens/critped/linksrace.htm
