Literacy with Paulo Freire: a brief look at the thematic about the EJA

Abstract

This article is the result of a study that proposed for the construction of the generating themes contained in a minimal thematic universe of the Paulo Freire Literacy Method. This research focuses on: “Literacy with Paulo Freire: a brief look at thematic at EJA”. It is based on thematic research, through pedagogical visits in classrooms of Youth and Adult Education classes - EJA, from the Alfabetiza Lapa Program, where generative themes will be extracted to later build planning compatible with the liberating education proposed by Freire. It is based on the production of critical knowledge that helps subjects to understand and overcome their limit situations, placing critical reflection on the reality experienced by the student, at the service of action to transform understandings of it. This way of investigating, carries with it the principles of critical-emancipatory education, the students can reflect on the conditions in which they live and work. Therefore, for the objective’s analysis and information’s collection, a dialectical historical materialism method with its categories was chosen, which in turn are intertwined with each other and are fundamental to the real understanding of man in the social context, in this research the focus will be on contradiction category.