REFLECTIONS ON THE THOUGHT CONVERGENCE OF PAULO FREIRE AND EDGAR MORIN

contributions for teacher’s formation

Abstract

Pedagogy of Autonomy: Necessary Knowledge that Leads to Educational Practice”and“Seven complex lections in education for the future”, respectively. Both authors conceive knowledge as the possibility of knowing, conflicting with the idea of knowledge accumulation, characteristic of common sense. They emphasize the importance of considering human complex dimension for the comprehension of education and society as a whole. Also defend the idea of men having an attitude of continuous aperture to new ideas and continuous revision of old ones, valorizing affective and emotional aspects. This continuous process of aperture and revision should avoid that ideas become rationalization objects, fact that generate blindness and incomprehension. The analysis presented here can be a subsidiary element for promoting discussions and debates between teachers and education professionals that could effectively contribute to reorientation and humanization of educational practices.