THE HUMAN DIMENSION IN TEACHER TRAINING FROM A FREIREAN AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Committed to going beyond formal education, this research reflects on the importance of welcoming and nurturing strategies in humanising learning processes in social subjects. The reference point is the Degree in Rural Education offered by the Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri (UFVJM), specifically the learning within the curricular unit “Health, Human Body and Sexualities” (LECCN117), offered between 2022 and 2023. The theoretical framework included Freirean assumptions and black and revolutionary feminism, as reflected by bell hooks, which affirm education as a practice of freedom. This perspective enabled the use of methods that encouraged reflection-action-reflection, which are materialised in Investigative-Formative Dialogical Circles and in Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health, which were covered this curricular unit. Among the results of this research, the emergence of empathy and the practice of speaking and listening without judgment in the initial training of teachers stands out. It was possible to have an lived empirical experience of Freirean principles, added to the foundations of black feminism, highlighting democratic practice in the daily life of the learning community, which enhanced an authentic praxis, in the sense of bringing to practical reality the knowledge and understanding at the conscious level . This perspective corroborates what Freire and Hooks state about the experiences of education as a practice, where processes of the transformation of society begin.