NARRATIVES AND DIALOGUES ABOUT THE PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED: INTERVIEW WITH CARLOS RODRIGUES BRANDÃO

Abstract

Carlos Rodrigues Brandão holds a master's degree in Anthropology, a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, a free lecturer in Anthropology of Symbolism and a postdoctoral degree from the University of Perugia and the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is a contributing professor of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), a collaborating professor of POSGEO at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) and visiting professor at Goiás State University. In this interview, given Margarete Sampaio and Maurício Fagundes, Brandao sets forth his trajectory, elements that preceded and processes that constituted Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire. It emphasizes that the work, based on Education as a Practice of Freedom, announces a pedagogy of struggle and hope, based on popular education, marked by Freirean principles of an education whose social function is not only to illustrate people, but also to contribute to become critical and participate in processes of transformation of the world. Promoted to announce clues of hope, he draws inspiration from Freire and reiterates the need to transform minds, having as a horizon the pedagogy of the oppressed, the educational principle of popular education. The accounts of Brandão emphasize that the Freirean work generates restlessness, inspirations, transformations, dreams and hopes in the human emancipation. Brandão instigates the search for the understanding of Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a work and as an educational principle, based on his own testimony of life.