Paulo Freire in Abya Yala: denunciations and announcements of a decolonial epistemology
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.16.16634.059Abstract
This article has as starting point the topicality and relevance of Paulo Freire’s epistemic and pedagogical thinking for Decolonial Studies. This is a qualitative research of a bibliographic nature 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; Pedagogy of the oppressed; and Pedagogy in process: the letters to Guinea-Bissau. Some dimensions of analysis were presented: oppressor/oppressed, dehumanization/humanization and culture of silence/dialogue, awareness/colonization of minds, hope/hopelessness and liberation/domestication, demonstrating that Freire is a precursor and critical testimony of modernity-coloniality.
Keywords: Paulo Freire. Decoloniality. Latin America.
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