From the pedagogy of liberation to decolonial pedagogy. Contributions from the thought of Pablo Freire

• Johan MÉNDEZ REYES Universidad Politécnica Salesiana

Abstract

This study is part of the tradition of historizing ideas in our America initially in its main authors who, due to their contributions, allow us to consider them essential to continue rethinking about the problems that are still present in our societies at a political, social and educational level. Indeed, the pedagogy of liberation proposed by Freire (1982) invites us to carry out a profound reading on the struggle for an education for freedom that affects the structures of power and domination and gives way to decolonial spaces of resistance and struggle against the coloniality of knowledge. In this sense, the purpose of this research is to analyze the pedagogy of liberation to reveal the contributions of Freire (1993) to decolonial pedagogy, from a hermeneutic methodology it is sought to interpret various sources that allow us to approach the most significant contributions of pedagogy developed in the author and find the bases and foundations for a decolonial thought. It is concluded that it is in the political where the pedagogical is gestated and it is in the pedagogical where politics is made for both individual and collective liberation against any order of domination so that the peoples can organize themselves, from a decolonial pedagogy, and in this way transform the political structures that still subdue and oppress it.

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