Paulo Freire's Teacher As Cultural Workers

Paulo Freire’s work can be seen all around the world. Throughout the book, Freire tries to summarize a lifetime of work in education. He focuses on issues teachers face in their classrooms and their desire to do more than just lecture the students. The overall purpose of Freire’s book Teacher as Cultural Workers is to teach teachers to love their job and understand whom they’re teaching. When teaching, teachers need to fully grasp the differences between students so that they are able to grow and get their best learning experience from school. Each person has a different learning style and they learn different from each other. Although Freire wrote the book as it applied to Brazil, many of his ideas and strategies are still in effect in schools today. …show more content…
To Freire, “there is no teaching without learning” (Freire, 31). He felt that teaching allowed teachers to learn because they took knowledge and applied it based on observations they made about the students and their learning styles. Teachers constantly have to rethink and revise what has been taught in the past. He explains that teacher’s learning stems from “their seeking to become involved in their students’ curiosity and in the paths and streams it takes them through” (Freire, 32). Basically, this means that teachers learn and relearn in order to be effective teachers. According to Freire, teachers who are open to student suggestions are more likely to be more effective teachers after learning and relearning what they’re