Research guides: Paulo Freire: Audiovisual resources

Paulo Freire: Audiovisual Resources at OISE Library

Paulo Freire at OISE

In the late 1970s, Paulo Freire visited OISE to give a 6 week summer course. During the visit, Freire was interviewed by Alan Thomas and J. Roby Kidd, both prominent OISE figures in adult education. The following three productions, edited and released in 1979, includes footage from those interviews:

Letters in the earth [videorecording] : a dialogue with Paulo Freire, Roby Kidd, Alan Thomas.
Call Number: OISE Audio Visual DVD 038
Publication Date: Media Centre, Univ. of Toronto : Canadian Assoc. for Adult Education ; in cooperation with the Media Services, Ont. Institute for Studies in Education, 1979
1 videodisc (35 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4in.
Interview with Paulo Freire. Freire discusses his relationship with his mother and father and their influence upon his attitudes toward adult education.
Digitized version available.
Guns & pencils [videorecording] : a dialogue with Paulo Freire, Roby Kidd, Alan Thomas.
Call Number: OISE Audio Visual - DVD 039
Publication Date: Media Centre, Univ. of Toronto : Canadian Assoc. for Adult Education ; in cooperation with the Media Services, Ont. Institute for Studies in Education, 1979
1 videodisc (32 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4in.
Freire discusses his views on the role of education in developing countries, and his own work with the revolutionary government in Guinea-Bissau.
Digitized version available.
Becoming a Christian [videorecording] : a dialogue with Paulo Freire, Roby Kidd, Alan Thomas.
Call Number: OISE Audio Visual - DVD 037
Publication Date: Media Centre, Univ. of Toronto : Canadian Assoc. for Adult Education ; in cooperation with the Media Services, Ont. Institute for Studies in Education, 1979.
1 videodisc (12 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Since Freire's exile from Brazil, he has been in the employ of the World Council of Churches. He discusses his own faith and philosophy of religion.
Digitized version available.

Other Dialogues with Paulo Freire

Thinking with Paulo Freire. [Sound recording]. by Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
Call Number: OISE Library OHEC - CDA 002 disc 1-8
Publication Date: Melbourne : Australian Council of Churches, Commission on Christian Education, 1974?
8 Compact Discs
In dialogue with Paulo Freire. [Sound recording] by Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
Call Number: OISE Library OHEC - RT 114 cass. 1
Publication Date: Madison, Wisconsin : s.n., p1979.
7 cassettes ; & 1 script.
Summary: Paulo Freire discusses such questions as research, literacy, women and social change in an informal seminar with students and teachers.
A dialogue with Paulo Freire [videorecording] : literacy and participatory education /
Call Number: OISE library OHEC - VC 5201
Publication Date: Irvine, Ca. : University of California, 1987.
1 videocassette : sd., col.; 1/2 in (VHS)
Freire discusses his thoughts and philosophy at a conference at the University of California
Revitalization movements [videorecording] : Sarvodaya/conscientization, a dialogue with Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE library OHEC - VC5233 cass.1-2
Publication Date: Made by the Dept. of Communications Media, University of Calgary, produced for the Dept. of Educational Policy and Administrative Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. 1982
2 videocassettes (90 min.) : sd., col. : 3/4 in.
Freire is interviewed by Mathew Zachariah and they discuss such issues as social change, the politics of education and the individual's role in social change.

Other Audiovisual Resources

Starting from Nina : the politics of learning. [videorecording]
Call Number: OISE library OHEC- VC 5489
Publication Date: Toronto : Development Education Centre, 1978.
1 videocassette, 30 min. : sd., col.
"Starting from Nina: The politics of learning" (1977) was co-directed by Rosemary Donegan, Anita Shilton and D'Arcy Martin (Development Education Centre). This film was produced and circulated in 1977 by the Development Education Centre, incorporating interview footage from Paulo Freire's visit to OISE/UT and Toronto in 1976. It explores real-life situations in which people consciously try to apply Freire's insights in the social and political context of Toronto in the mid-1970's. These include a primary school classroom, two courses in English for Portuguese immigrants (one union-based and one community-based), and a workshop with clerical workers in an international development organization. (Remembering Freire, Reinventing Freire Conference Program, OISE, 2007)
Peru [videorecording] : literacy for social change by Osterried Productions.
Call Number: OISE library OHEC - VC 5009
Publication Date: 1978
1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS) + 1 guide.
Summary: The theories of educator Paulo Freire are used to teach Peruvian peasants to read and write.
Tanzania [videorecording] : education for self-reliance by Osterried Productions ; Audio Visual Institute, Dar es Salaam.
Call Number: OISE library OHEC - VC 5008
1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS) + 1 guide
Summary: Using the approach of educator Paulo Freire, a group of villagers in Tanzania learn how to build their own homes as a lesson in self-reliance.

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