Education and teacher training

a view from Paulo Freire

Abstract

Education is the primordial factor in the life of the human being. According to Freire (2013), it is humanizing and awareness-raising. Freire deals with two types of education: banking education, underpinned by a transmissive, fragmentary kind of teaching, which considers pupils as recipients; and the other, the emancipating one, which considers pupils as active, reflective beings. The aim of this work was to reflect on the conceptions of education and teachers training. The methodology used here was bibliographic research on Freire (2000, 2005, 2009, 2013), Imbernón (2016), Lopes & Amorim (2018), and Scocuglia (2019). Freire advocates a permanent training for educators bearing in mind that the human being is an unfinished, incomplete being, who needs to understand and to keep pace with the ever-changing aspect of life, in the educational system and in the relations established among men and between education and society. Therefore, we conclude that permanent training for educators is indispensable for the teacher’s work, because it allows the educator to become capable of developing their pedagogical practice in a way that it encompasses aspects such as dialog, listening, and respect towards different kinds of knowledge as elements contributing to a reading of reality capable of transforming reality itself.