CONTRIBUTIONS OF PAULO FREIRE TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Even 50 years after the launch of Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his current contributions to the field of Education are perceptible. This article aims to dialogue about education for young people and adults guided by the Freire's principles. For this, we developed a narrative review based on the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and we analyzed four themes, namely: (I) the human essence and knowledge; (II) the individual-society relationship; (III) the theory-practice relationship and the objectivity-subjectivity relationship; (IV) the social purposes of education and the teacher's place in the educational process. As a result, we saw that Paulo Freire pedagogy is the result of a long journey of life, of a man's journey between his origins, his world, experiences, readings, and contact with other subjects. His pedagogical and humanistic ideas depart from the micro to the macrocosm, from the world of the less favored classes as opposed to the world of the privileged. In the field of education with young people and adults, taking Paulo Freire as an inclusive educator means, among other aspects, building knowledge that considers the diversity of worldviews of the subjects involved and enables the process of humanization.