Fifty Years After Angicos : Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible
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A tese principal defendida neste trabalho é a de que a experiência original de Freire em Angicos antecipou um grande projeto de transformação social e do sistema educacional. Nesse sentido, reuniu dois conceitos-chave que constituem a base de seu sistema educacional: cultura popular como um projeto contra-hegemônico e de educação popular, mais particularmente, o que mais tarde foi chamado de escola cidadã ou educação pública popular como pedra fundamental de seu novo sistema educacional. Utilizo o termo Sistema de Paulo Freire para mostrar que as suas tentativas iniciais não foram só para desafiar a pedagogia dominante no sistema de ensino bancário tão difundida, nessa época, no Brasil e na América Latina. Ao desafiar a hegemonia da educação bancária, o seu discurso, fundamentos teóricos, epistemologia e metodologia, Freire e a sua equipe procuraram criar um novo sistema que pudesse substituir o antigo. Consideraram a educação bancária não só como obsoleta em termos de modernização dos sistemas, mas também opressiva em termos gnosiológicos, epistemológicos e políticos. Na conclusão deste artigo discuto as obsessões gêmeas de Freire, já presentes na experiência de Angicos e que permanecem com ele ao longo de toda a sua vida: a relação entre democracia, cidadania e educação, e a da educação como um ato ético pós-colonial de transformação social. Gostaria de enfatizar, portanto, que o sistema de Paulo Freire, tal como foi concebido na experiência de Angicos e as suas conseqüências era um sistema muito mais amplo e completo do que o que originariamente foi considerado, mesmo pelos seus críticos.
The main thesis of this paper is that Freire’s original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics.
The main thesis of this paper is that Freire’s original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics.
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Revista Lusófona de Educação
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EDUCAÇÃO, FREIRE, PAULO, EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR, EDUCATION, POPULAR EDUCATION
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Torres , C A 2013 , ' Fifty Years After Angicos : Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible ' , Revista Lusófona de Educação .