Abstract

LOUREIRO, Camila Wolpato  and  MORETTI, Cheron Zanini. Paulo Freire in Abya Yala: denunciations and announcements of a decolonial epistemology. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2021, vol.16, e2116634.  Epub Oct 21, 2021. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/praxeduc.v.16.16634.059.

This article has as starting point the relevance and how updated is Paulo Freire's epistemic and pedagogical thinking for Decolonial Studies. This is a bibliographic qualitative research that aimed to understand the dialectic between denunciation and announcement in the epistemology of Paulo Freire in Abya Yala. For this purpose, the three main works written and published in the period of his exile were taken as an object of analysis: Education: the practice of freedom (1967), Pedagogy in process: the letters to Guinea-Bissau (1978) and Pedagogy of the oppressed (1987). Some analysis dimensions are presented: oppressor / oppressed, dehumanization/humanization and culture of silence/dialogue, awareness/colonization of minds, hope/hopelessness, and liberation/domestication, demonstrating that Freire is a modernity-coloniality precursor and critical witness.

Keywords : Paulo Freire; Decoloniality; Latin America.

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