Abstract

JESUS, Lucia de Fatima Oliveira de. PAULO FREIRE'S LIBERATING PEDAGOGY: A BRAZILIAN UTOPIA. Revista LES [online]. 2024, vol.28, n.57, 4957.  Epub Apr 03, 2025. ISSN 2526-8449.  https://doi.org/10.26694/rles.v28i57.4957.

The text presents a reflection on aspects of the utopian dimension of Freire educational thought, by examining the direct references on the topic of utopia found in the author's work and other documents such as the famous Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha to King D. Manuel from Portugal, accounts of the voyage of Christopher Columbus of 1492 and the work Utopia by Thomas Morus (1515), in the perspective of an arrangement that would allow us to understand the context in which Paulo Freire worked and how this Brazilian came to develop a concept of education, at the same time possible, necessary and utopian, moving away from rupture and war. We verified a utopian matrix, mainly in the texts that we consider as the originators of his pedagogy, Education as a practice of freedom and Pedagogy of the oppressed. Since then, in these 50 years, we have moved from a Brazil with 50% illiterate people to a Brazil with less than 10% illiterate people. We have a lot to walk.

Keywords : Liberating pedagogy; Paulo Freire and Brazilian Utopia.

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