CURRICULUM: THE FREIREAN WAY OF DOING

Abstract

The present article comprises the theoretical framework of a Master's thesis (ABENSUR, 2009) that aimed to describe and analyze the everyday life of a school focusing on the processes related to the organization of the school curriculum. This study is part of a national research that is being carried out under the auspices of Paulo Freire Chair at PUC-SP and supervised by Professor Ana Maria Saul. The objective is to analyze the contribution and the influence of Paulo Freire’s theory on the Brazilian Public Education System from the nineties until now. Paulo Freire is acknowledged in the educational field not for having conceived a teaching method, but for having conceived a Pedagogy that is committed to the humanization and freedom of the human being in the struggle for the construction of a fairer and more solidary world. It is in this perspective of the repercussion of the freirean thought to the educational work that the curiosity of knowing how Paulo Freire’s proposal could contribute to the democratic management in school rose. In the text, some categories that comprise the Freirean Educational Paradigm are highlighted, regarding the organization of the curriculum, and, then, the implementation of this new educational paradigm in curricular reorientation during the management of the educator Paulo Freire as Secretary of Education of São Paulo City, between 1989 and 1991.

Keywords: Freirean pedagogy; Curriculum; Paulo Freire Chair.