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  2. Paulo Freire - Wikipedia

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    Biography[edit] Freire was born on 19 September 1921 to a middle-class family in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. He became familiar with poverty and hunger from an early age as a result of the Great Depression. In 1931 his family moved to the more affordable city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, 18 km west of ...

  3. Anuha Island Resort - Wikipedia

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    Anuha Island Resort. Anuha Island Resort is located on Anuha Island in the Florida Group in the Solomon Islands and is pronounced Anuca by the locals. [1] The Island itself is located approximately 35 miles from Honiara, and approximately 15 minutes from Henderson airfield. The resort was burned down over a land ownership dispute in 1988.

  4. Critical consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Critical consciousness, conscientization, or conscientização in Portuguese ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kõsjẽtʃizaˈsɐ̃w] ), is a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire, grounded in neo-Marxist critical theory. Critical consciousness focuses on achieving an in-depth ...

  5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Wikipedia

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    Critical pedagogy. Pedagogy of the Oppressed ( Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese between 1967 and 1968, but published first in Spanish in 1968. An English translation was published in 1970, with the Portuguese original being published in 1972 in Portugal, and then again in ...

  6. AI companies make fresh safety promise at Seoul summit ... - AOL

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    Leading artificial intelligence companies made a fresh pledge at a mini-summit Tuesday to develop AI safely, while world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to ...

  7. Critical pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. [1] It insists that issues of social justice and democracy are not distinct from acts of teaching and learning. [2]

  8. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Mechanics, instrument makers and surveyors had various mathematics training. James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being "largely self-educated". Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Lunar Society. In the eighteenth century these societies often gave ...

  9. Solomon Islands National Council of Women - Wikipedia

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    Founded at. Honiara, Solomon Islands. Type. Non-governmental organisation. Purpose. "Women as Equal Partners in the Development of Solomon Islands". Solomon Islands National Council of Women is a non-governmental women's organisation based in Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. It was founded in 1983 [1] It has received funding from the Global ...