EDUCATION AND ITS SOCIAL FUNCTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN IN PRESENT TIMES IN ANGOLA
approach to socioeducational reality based on Paul Freire
Abstract
The present approach had as a general objective, to show the role of education in the social development of the man in the present time of Angola. This approach aimed to look at the social reality in which education is situated from the Center-South of Angola – the stage of the Benguela Railway and the world of life of Paulo Freire, in the most difficult years at the crucial decision-making time for Brazilians. These reflections showed the great importance of school education in the face of a rampant number of social demands. It also presented as specific objectives:
to analyze school education as a space for social inclusion (through the learner/teacher dialogue, participation, awareness, ethics, freedom/authority, learning/teaching for the pronunciation of the world of life and the world
of the word read and written and the liberating education that supposes the coordinating authority of freedoms in order to manage limits), bring the social demands of the school, show the importance of a multidisciplinary team in the school environment. For this purpose, the methodology used in this article was bio-bibliographic, exploratory, and empirical. The Angolan school space is the environment where it receives and embraces a significant number of social demands and their actors, in particular, teachers end up playing multiple roles and different functions that are not theirs, thus living overloaded as education professionals, leaving them, many times, sick, ending up withdrawing from the exercise of the profession, and, in more extreme cases, they are forced to ask for their own exoneration. By way of conclusion, we are hereby to state that schools must train citizens who strive for change and transformation of human beings, making them a social, critical, reflective and, above all, aware, learning to pronounce the world itself, through the spoken, read and written word.
