Literacy, Social Movements, and Class Consciousness

Paths from Freire and the São Paulo Experience

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2470407
AutoresMaría Del Pilar O''Cadiz, María Del Pilar O'Cadiz (California Department of Education), Carlos Alberto Torres (0000-0003-2753-331X, University of California, Los Angeles)
Ano1994
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas208-225
Data de publicação1994-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aeq.1994.25.3.04x0140j
OpenAlexW2054690851
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas6

During a socialist administration in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1989 to 1992, a movement for literacy training of youths and adults (MOVA) and for a curriculum reform was established in the city's elementary schools. This article describes the socialist educational projects and Freire's work in São Paulo. It provides both a theoretical discussion of the projects' Freirean premises and a narrative of the experience of a particular group of literacy learners in one São Paulo favela (shantytown). The authors demonstrate a special concern for the articulation between the public sector (i.e., a government agency) and various social movements, as manifested in the MOVA literacy movement. The conclusion calls for "long life" to the creative imagination that inspires and propels such projects of education for social change

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