Resumo

NINO-ARTEAGA, Yesid. Problematize the Human Condition in Education. The Political Dimension and the Concept of Critical Thinking in the Pedagogy of Freire and Giroux. Pedagogía y Saberes [online]. 2019, n.51, pp.133-143. ISSN 0121-2494.

This reflection article proposes a reading of some concepts of Critical pedagogy and its contributions to the educational context from the pedagogic research of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux. It highlights both scholar reflection about the relationship between politics and education, and the importance of developing critical thinking. The article tries to show that the constant inquiry into the human can represent an unbalancing element of the neoliberal order, by means of a debate on the human is presented according to the criterion of adaptation exposed in neoliberalism and that is put in question by the Critical pedagogy. An approach is made to the political dimension in education proposed by Freire and then from the cultural critique of Giroux with emphasis on his contributions to the concept of critical thinking and the teacher's sense as an intellectual. Finally, the article discusses the role of education about the growing bureaucratization of the human condition in the XXI century.

Palavras-chave : education; political education; philosophy of education; critical pedagogy; critical thinking.

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