Conscientization, utopia, unprecedented viable and possible dreams

freirian education in times of necrophilic state

Abstract

The present work presents a discussion of a conceptual nature that involves the process of awareness and humanization contained in Paulo Freire's theoretical framework. Having as a central focus the understanding of the teaching practice and its crossings by the Freirian concepts of conscientization, utopia, unprecedented viable and possible dreams. In this sense, the work can be seen as a mobilizer of reflection for those Brazilian educators who experience a popular, liberating and critical educational practice. Methodologically, several Freirian works are used, with the aim of mapping how this educator relates being a teacher with the experience of awareness. It was observed that, for Freire, being an educator means being a “peopleperson” historically situated, who carry for themselves and in themselves projects of society, and education, which are crossed by the fields of possibilities placed in the history of humanity. Faced with this historicity, being a teacher means being to be constantly asked about letting oneself be crossed by the love of living things or the love of dead things. For Paulo Freire, every progressive, liberating educator is, consequently, an educator who, facing the endings of death in a given society, looks for biophilic fissures, fissures that make them experience love for living things.