PAULO FREIRE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

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ABSTRACT: Even 50 years after the launch of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his current contributions to the field of education are perceptible. This article discusses the education for young people and adults guided by Freire's principles. To do so, we developed a narrative review based on the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and analyzed four themes, namely: (I) the human essence and knowledge; (II) the individual-society relationship; (III) the theory-practice relationship and the objectivity-subjectivity relationship; (IV) the social purposes of education and the teacher's place in the educational process. As a result, we perceived that Paulo Freire's pedagogy is the result of a long life journey, a man's journey between his origins, his world, experiences, readings, and contact with other subjects. His pedagogical and humanistic ideas depart from the micro to the macrocosms, from the world of the less privileged classes in opposition to the privileged ones. In the educational field of young people and adults, taking Paulo Freire as an inclusive educator means, among other aspects, building types of knowledge that consider diverse worldviews and enables the humanization process.