Thinking About Environmental Education From Paulo Freire's Book Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau

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Abstract

This paper is a result of a study group about Paulo Freire’s book “Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau”. In this article, we discuss three ideas of Freirean pedagogy contained in this book and how they contribute to an environmental education desde el Sur. We identified the following points: the understanding of education as a political process, which defines its non-neutrality; the recognition of people as subjects of knowledge, which implies the development of educational processes through the systematization of knowledge with the population and never for it; and the decolonization of minds and the re-Africanization of mentalities.

Authors

• Paolo de Castro Martins, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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• Andressa Dutra
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• Carla Lubanco
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• Gabriela Silva Trindade, The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
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• Celso Sanchez, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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