SIX DECADES OF A FULL DEMOCRATIZATION PROJECT: UPDATING BRAZILIAN CURRENTNESS WITH PAULO FREIRE

REATUALIZANDO A ATUALIDADE BRASILEIRA COM PAULO FREIRE

Authors

  • Luiz Fernando de Oliveira

Keywords:

Democracy education, fundamental antinomy, exploration and colonization, criticality

Abstract

This article presents a contextual and updated analysis of the book Educação e atualidade
brasileira (Education and Brazilian actuality), written by Paulo Freire in 1959, in which the author
demonstrates how the contrast between the “democratic inexperience” and the “people emergence to
national public life” formed the fundamental antinomy of Brazil in developing. Through a historical
approach, Freire detects the origin of the anti-democratic mental dispositions of Brazilian people in Brazil
formation itself. He also points out the processes that afforded the perpetuation of these anti-democratic
mental dispositions. Detecting the end of the 1950s as the propitious scenario for a participative and
critical insertion of people in the decision-making national processes, the author supports the necessity
of educating women and men to democratic life, the role of an education that needed a complete revision.
Considering the specificities of each historical moment, Freire’s reflections enlighten the current context,
support the problematization of nowadays antinomies, and reveal the paths in which it is possible to
build one education for social justice.

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Published

2020-08-20

How to Cite

Fernando de Oliveira, L. (2020). SIX DECADES OF A FULL DEMOCRATIZATION PROJECT: UPDATING BRAZILIAN CURRENTNESS WITH PAULO FREIRE: REATUALIZANDO A ATUALIDADE BRASILEIRA COM PAULO FREIRE. Educação Em Revista, 36(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/35598

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 1 (2020): v.36 (2020)

Section

Artigos

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