A IMPORTÂNCIA DA TENDÊNCIA LIBERTADORA DE PAULO FREIRE PARA A EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS

Abstract

Youth and adult education program (EJA) is a teaching method designated to those who did not have access to regular education at the appropriate age, allowing them to become critical beings and understand their part in society. For that matter, this study, made in an exploratory and qualitative methodology, aims to understand the Brazilian author Paulo Freire’s Libertarian Theory and its importance to the consolidation of the Youth and adult education program. This was made by finding a way to distinguish Bank and Libertarian education, besides discussing the teacher’s part in the students’ learning success, emphasizing the importance of a significant education. In order to reach this study’s goal, bibliographical research was made basing in authors such as Aranha (1996), Freire (1994,2005), Gadotti (1996, 2001), Jorge e Benedetti (2005), Paiva (1973) e Patto (1996) among others. After that, it will be possible to realize the importance of using the libertarian pedagogical trend, once it guides the teachers on working in a more specific way with the EJA students. So that the partnership between the teachers and students reaches its final goal, it is needed to understand some fundamental points of the libertarian trend, such as seeing the students as the subject of its own history, the need for dialogue and humble actions as ethical prerequisites for the teachers that commit to contribute to the libertarian process through education.