The historical construction of the subject in the works of Paulo Freire

a reflection on historical consciousness

Abstract

This work is the result of research developed at the Federal Institute of Goiás (Senador Canedo Campus) with the objective of reflecting on Paulo Freire's thinking, especially regarding the contribution that this intellectual offers to the exercise of Theory and Teaching of History. In this sense, to understand how historians can use it as a valuable contribution to the reflections around historical science and its teaching, taking as a premise the possibility of building with a pedagogical relationship that aims at transforming individuals into autonomous and intellectually free subjects in relationship with the world. This view on the teaching-learning relationship inscribed in the reflections of Paulo Freire has as its starting point the very life of the subjects involved in this process, or in other words, the life history of those who present themselves within this process, aiming through education its own constitution of humanization. In an objective way, the central proposal of this work is, therefore, to investigate how this potentiality about how Paulo Freire's thought contributes to the process of development of the historical consciousness of those involved in the pedagogical field through historicity.