L’éducation en tant que pratique de la liberté est-elle toujours d’actualité au Paraguay ?

Abstract

For Freire, education, as the exercise of freedom, is a knowledge production process that does not end with a simple acquisition of knowledge but takes its place in a process of communication with other cognitive skills. It is therefore included in a communicational perspective and linked to praxis and conscientization. In this regard, knowledge is a construct that stems from the human-world relation and is perfected within a process of critical problematization of this relation. It is therefore a question of relations linked to transformation. From Freire’s perspective of transformation through education, this paper seeks to verify the relevance and validity of his method in the current context of Paraguay. A country that has undergone a process of educational reform in recent years. In order to try to understand the relevance of Freire’s work today, it is necessary to replace it in the current context of sociocultural and socio-political changes. In order to do so, we will study the specific case of the management of the Escuela Viva program. This analysis will allow us to discover the various aspects to consider when defining and managing a project of educational transformation.