Corporeity and dialectics of oppression/liberation

pedagogical-philosophical approximations to the perspective of the Freirean “being more”

Abstract

This article is the result of a conference ministered on April 2, 2021 in the virtual room of the Group of Environmental Dialogic Education (Gead) of the Federal University of Ceará. It is a reflection that emerged in the field of School Physical Education that aimed to establish a dialectical relationship between the notion of “being more” in Paulo Freire and of Corporeity as a way of presenting the human being in the world as a subject of praxis. Therefore, we start from the observation that for this author the human being cannot and should not be conceived as a duality “mind/body” or “spirit/body” for being a reproducer of binary and dichotomized world views. And that the overcoming of this type of ideological vision, related to mechanisms of alienation and oppression, implies the construction of a unitary Popular Education, not unilateral, capable of facing and breaking the foundations of such mechanisms, and its corresponding materialization in the form of “cultures of silence”. In this context, Freire would coin the notion of “being more” from which he would also make explicit, in our understanding, a dialectical conception of corporeality