Revisitando os Fundamentos da Educação para a Libertação: o legado de Paulo Freire

Ronald David Glass

Authors

Ronald David Glass University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, Estados Unidos

Keywords:

Freire. Liberation Education. Ethics. Ontology. Epistemology. Philosophy of Education.

Abstract

This essay examines, critiques, and extends the ontological, epistemological, ethical, and political foundations of Paulo Freire’s theoryof liberation education; it also situates Freire’s legacy with in the global applicationof his ideas in a wide range of educational contexts. It defends historicity and praxis as essential characteristics of human existence, exposes the problems with notions of authentic identities, and elaborates a historicized understanding of knowledge production. The essay argues for liberation education to be grounded in an ethics without righteousness coupled with a politics of militant nonviolence.

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Author Biography

Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, Estados Unidos

É professor de Filosofia da Educação do Departamento de Educação da Divisão de Ciências Sociais da Universidade da Califórnia, Santa Cruz. É também diretor do University of California Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (www.ccrec.ucsc.edu). Seu trabalho foca-se na educação como formação de sociedades igualitárias, pluralistas e democráticas.