Paulo Freire and Heidegger: essentials of letting learn
Abstract
This paper develops a philosophical research study about teacher education. It underlines the meaning of “letting learn” in some of the first works of Paulo Freire as Education as the Practice of Liberty (1967) and The Pedagogy of the Opressed (1974) and the last lectures that Heidegger gave in winter and summer semesters in 1951 and 1952 at The University of Freiburg. These lectures had the theme What is Called Thinking. This paper emphasizes the interpretation of the meaning of “letting learn” when these two thinkers tried to act and speak assuming the role of the professor, notwithstanding they understand this issue on different forms of rationality. Freire understands “letting learn” as a dialectical process of criticizing traditional education, Heidegger asks for the meaning of learning and teaching in the context of what is called thinking. The professor assumes the role of someone who has the task of learning to think as the essential of teaching...
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