Literacy stops beyond the method: a syntax freireana

Abstract

Paulo Freire is without a doubt the biggest Brazilian educator, its workmanship searchs, through the practical literacy, to think Brazilian forms to know Brazil. Instead of a kind of Brazil concerning to the oligarchical elites, the social inequality, the concentration of income, he wants to know Brazil of the point of view of its people, the quotidian of the Brazilian society. The Freire's thought is a compromised radical thought with solidarity between the men. Paulo Freire fought against oppression, the exploration, the social injustice. The education was its fighting area and the ideas and the words its weapons of fight. The workmanship of Freire produced a new syntax in the educational field. When defending the literacy as act of reflection, creation, awareness and release, Freire rejects the conception that sees the literacy as acquisition of codification mechanics/decoding of words and signs. Freire, when articulating the reading of the world to the reading of the word, inserts the practical literacy in the perspective of one cultural politics -culture understood here as the relation of the man with its milieu, that it searchs to namely instrumental educating to think the space where he lives in order to organize the fight against the oppression and the injustice. In this direction, the literacy concept extends itself and it exceeds its etymological content to deal with letters and words mechanically, beginning to translate the relations of educating with the world, mediated for the transformer practical of this world