Atualidade/necessidade do pensamento de Paulo Freire: a experiência da prática docente em um cursinho popular

Abstract

College Preparatory popular courses are being created in Brazil's peripheries in order to help poor young people to have a chance to compete for higher education positions. In this article we present an interpretation in the light of the thought of Paulo Freire on the practice of a popular course located in Itapevi, a city located at the peripheral region of the great São Paulo. The question that moves us is: could the practices of these courses rescue Freire's thinking for the present and preserve it from the oblivion of the ruin of distorted readings? The speeches obtained at the focus group meeting with four volunteer teachers revealed that these teachers, based on a conception of education beyond what is "possible", offer a critical human
formation to their students, these teachers question their own educational practices and their own entrance exam. Popular education developed in the popular curriculum updates the pedagogical and political relevance of Paulo Freire's proposals.