Os desafios da alfabetização junto ao público adulto

Abstract

This text is an analysis of Freire's thinking that prioritizes education as a practice of freedom and the fight against illiteracy in Brazil. It seeks to understand the current situation of illiteracy in Brazil based on data collected in the last IBGE National Census in 2022. It identifies government actions against illiteracy in the history of the republic and considers Paulo Freire as a theoretical paradigm for facing the challenges of illiteracy in the country today. Although it is a text from the 1960s, from the last century and millennium, it is completely current and true. Overcoming an oppressive society through a pedagogy of the oppressed seeks liberation through self-awareness as an agent of transformation and social construction. Thus, every unjust “social order” generated by the violence of the oppressors, commonly identified in Brazil by its slave-owning elite that dehumanizes the subject, must be fought by seeking self-awareness as a person and by self-awareness as an oppressed class. Here, it is characterized as a great mistake for “oppressed” men to see their “oppressor” as their testimony as a man, their testimony of “humanity”. It is not acceptable in Paulo Freire’s pedagogy for the oppressed, immersed in the gears of the structure implemented by the oppressor, to fear freedom and feel incapable of reacting to the oppressor or taking risks for their own freedom. Therefore, the great challenge for the freedom and liberation of the oppressed is their literacy.