UMA ABORDAGEM FREIRIANA PARA A EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

Abstract

This work presents the Brazilian thesis Citizen Education at Distance: supports of a freirean perspective for the modality in finishing phase. The thesis was motivated by the distrusts regarding to the possibilities of an emancipatory distance education. It is the result of a bibliographical research about the Citizen School Movement, awareness, citizenship and Education in Freire, close to the theories about dis‑tance education, apart from interviews with specialists of the modality in Brazil, Portugal, and Venezuela about forming for citizenship. Citizenship is focused as a key word for a discussion of an education engaged with the construction of a society of planetary character. In this direction, the thesis defends as conditions for a Distance Citizenship Education the following aspects: 1) educate by citizenship, against the excessive preoccupation to transmit contents and evaluate them; 2) Collective work, in opposition to fragmented work of professionals; 3) mediating dialogue through the world, against the self ‑instruction and “dialogues” with no problem posing; 4) participative organization, open and flexible, of the teaching learning process, against rigorous perspectives, centralized and closed to partici‑pation; 5) coherent studying materials, opposed to the so called neutrality; and 6) circulation with social movements in net, against closed formations in themselves. The thesis also intends to contribute with the freirean legacy and call attention of popular educators for the necessity to appropriate this modality.