Paulo Freire: Um Homem do Mundo

The program investigates Paulo Freire's education and his influences on the conception of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, based on testimonies from his family and professionals who knew him or work in the institutions where he put his concepts into practice.

Directed by Cristiano Burlan, this episode brings the literacy experience, led by Paulo Freire, in Angicos, in the backlands of Rio Grande do Norte. He revisits the city, meets the former students, the teachers and also brings statements from Freire.

The episode portrays Paulo Freire's experience during his exile in Switzerland, how much this experience had an impact on his work and also brings his testimonies and those of people he lived with.

Freire's arrival from exile portrayed in interviews with professionals who comment on his trajectory from this return.

The program transits the foundations of Paulo Freire's training and his perceptions about the interaction with the other. It brings light to the theater scene its influence in the creation of Cia do Tijolo, which expresses its primordial concepts through the playwrights. Singer and songwriter Chico César has studied the pedagogue's teachings since he was a boy, he even made music for him.