With whom? next to whom? against what? convergences, differences, divergences, oppositions (a contribution to the circuits of writings and dialogue around the “100 years of Paulo Freire”)

Abstract

What matters in this brief writing are the convergences, differences, divergences and oppositions in and between vocations of education today. This will be the moment to remember that Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed as an assertively “against” book. Finally, it is not just a matter of seeking to improve what exists within the cultural field of education. It is about seeking, in and between disputed territories, the place of a new hegemony. And, in its search for the “unknown viable”, the search for its possible horizon. It is a question of proposing other counter-vocations; establish and affirm other pedagogies; occupy and preserve freed territories for an emancipatory education through other schools and other different instances of teaching-and-learning.