Rosa Carter Coffie
Northcentral University
A Comparison of Paulo Freire and William Brickman
This paper briefly compares two of the world distinguished educators; Paulo Freire and William Brickman. The paper introduces both educators and debate on their contributions to the field of education. Moreover, this paper clarifies the ambiguity of the resistance that each faced in advancing their research to the next successful phase, the similarities and differences between them and the factors that may have impacted their imminent success as well.
Freirer and William and Their Contributions
Paulo Freiere and his family were forced to move to the countryside of Recife Brazil in 1929, after an anguish reversal of fortune (Flanagan, 2005). Freirer witnessed at close proximity poverty and the effects that it had on education. Moreover, how it was used as a tool to simply retain the economically …show more content…
In addition with Comparative Education and equally importantly was Brickman’s interpersonal affection of knowledge. Moreover, Brickman trusted that “Comparative Education required a simultaneous pursuit of historical, comparative and international inquiry” (Silova & Brehm, 2010, p. 18). Further, Brickman began his study on Comparative Education by preparing academic tours, traveling, learning, exchanging information, learning languages and cultures ((Silova & Brehm, 2010). Brickman accommodated his editor’s role as “his foremost academic duty to advance academic freedom and integrity of scholarship in the academic world” (Silova & Brehm, 2010, p.