Paulo Freire: From Liberating Education to Decolonial Pedagogy

Rodríguez M.N.C. · Revista de Filosofia (Venezuela) (2022) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6469158

Resumen

This paper aim of the essay is to analyze Paulo Freire's proposal for a liberating education in relation to the decolonial positions of today. To achieve this end, the research considers the following aspects: 1) Conceptualizes Freire's proposal referring to liberating education, in which he postulates a social praxis, with a view to building a pedagogy of the oppressed, as a mechanism to disarticulate the advances of the modernity, leading more and more to liberation. 2) It questions the banking conception of knowledge, as it assumes a depersonalized system of accumulation of knowledge, without understanding the complexity of existence. 3) It considers the role of the individual in the processes of social transformation, expressing a critique of the prevailing educational models, taking as an example the theory of the five skins of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The method used is the hermeneutic-documentary. It concludes in the need to maintain a critical attitude and a permanent social action, which allows consolidating liberation through a decolonization project.

Instituciones: Universidad Continental