PAULO FREIRE IN US

REVIEWS AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL TURNS TODAY

Abstract

The article recovers aspects of socio-educational and socio-political praxis, highlighting the connection established with territories historically placed on the margins, in historiography. We situate Paulo Freire (1921-1997) as a tributary of Latin American anti-colonialism, Marxism and Catholic progressivism in the mid-twentieth century, a humanist thinker whose mark, from his interaction, is the participation in the dynamics engendered at the grassroots. We highlight popular movements and groups of intellectuals, from clandestine societies, which influenced the production of the theoretical framework and the modus operandi adopted and which has undisputed capillarity in the international sphere. The approach included re-readings of formative processes achieved in Africa and in the Latin American and Caribbean context where we located their effective presence, in different periods. We aim to understand how it defended itself in the process of sociopolitical liberation. From the analyzes produced, it is understood that he was, in fact, interested in living, side by side, with “the other of colonization”.