LEITURA DO MUNDO - Instituto Paulo Freire

ABSTRACT
This thesis is the result of an existential and pedagogical preocupation.
Reading the world has been a constant concern in my professional life, as a
teacher from the public and private schools, since I got in touch with Paulo
Freire`s ideas. It shows in the beginning the distinction between “capitalist
globalization” and “planetarization”, the “other globalization”. We present
planetarization as a new process inside globalization. Using the same technical
tools (new technologies of information and communication) that have permitted
the existence of capitalist globalization, planetarization is showing up, the
transnational articulation between civil society and State, looking foreword the
construction of an ecological and sustainable planet, socially just and showing
solidarity. As follow, it analyses the concept of reading the world in Paulo Freire
and its significance related to his theory of knowledge and to his “Method”.
Sequentially, shows the practical “application” of reading the world in two
teaching systems. It approaches the importance of reading the world in the
planetarization context and the construction of the political pedagogical project
of the school, presenting a practical example of reading the world, with a
theoretical frame, stages and necessary tools for its execution. Finally, it shows
that the planetarization process needs a pedagogy that counts with the
sustainability and formation to accomplish the planetarization citizen dream. The
earth placed in relation, turning dense contacts in a world level, creates new
possibilities for men and women give new meaning to the world and themselves.
Reading the world continues as a valid pedagogical strategy of an education for
freedom in which reading the world is a necessary condition for its
transformation. We finish by presenting a few principles and challenges of a
sustainable pedagogy that forms for the citizen planetary dream.
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