Luiz Antonio Botelho ANDRADE; Adriana CAMPANI and Felipe XAVIER NETO
RPGE – Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 27, n. esp. 1, e023020, 2023. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v27iesp.1.17928 13
subjects occur simultaneously and, therefore, the production of knowledge is not reduced to the
pure relationship between the subject and the object of knowledge because, if it were, it would
break the dialogical structure in which the presence of the other becomes ontologically
necessary. Based on this understanding, Paulo Freire reiterated numerous times throughout his
work the mistake in conceiving education as a mere act of transmission of information and/or
knowledge of those who know to whom, silenced in educational action, is prevented from being
more. From this understanding, he criticized the infantilization of adults and the mechanistic
formalism of instructional practices that he called "banking education" (FREIRE, 1996).
In educational praxis, teaching is understood as an interpersonal, political, ethical,
epistemological and pedagogical experience, built on the relationship between educator and
learner, so there is no teaching without decency (FREIRE, 1996).
Teaching is not transferring knowledge - not only does it need to be
apprehended by it and by the students in their reasons for being - ontological,
political, ethical, epistemological, pedagogical, but it also needs to be
constantly witnessed, lived [...] I can't just talk pretty about the ontological,
epistemological, and political reasons for the Theory. My discourse on the
Theory must be the concrete, practical example of the theory. His incarnation.
When talking about the construction of knowledge, criticizing its extension, I
must already be involved in it, and in it, the construction, be involving the
students (FREIRE, 1996, p. 27, our translation).
Freire calls for an autonomous teaching, self-aware, dignified, capable of negotiating
and creating knowledge that engenders different cultures, in the context of educational relations.
One of the most important tasks of the educational-critical practice is to
provide the conditions in which the students in relation to each other and all
with the teacher or the teacher rehearse the profound experience of assuming
themselves. To assume oneself as a social and historical being, as a thinking,
communicating, transformative, creator, dream maker, capable of having
anger because capable of loving (FREIRE, 1996, p. 23, our translation).
Freire states that the "assumption of ourselves" and the "knowing more" does not mean
the exclusion of others. Thus, "the otherness of not I, or of you, makes me assume the radicality
of myself" (FREIRE, 1996, p. 23, our translation). In this sense, interculturality, as a process of
intertwining networks of conversations, is the recognition of the existence of the other in what
affects us, provokes, destabilizes, contradicts and provokes conflicts, but also in what
diminishes the impetus of our arrogance in relation to knowledge, which relativizes and
challenges us cognitively, thus justifying that there is no instruction or transfer of
communications from the educator to the learner, although the learning of both, educator and