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movement towards an Ethical-Critical planning inspired by Freirean Thematic Investigation

Abstract

From an ethical-critical perspective (DUSSEL, 2012), it is believed that, by recognizing themselves as “victims” of the current system, people can establish ways of freeing themselves from the injustices they face. This idea is inspired by the practice of Freire (2019), defender of a humanizing education, for which he created a theoretical-methodological process called Thematic Investigation. This work proposes to engage with the process of humanization of the community of Vidal Ramos, an agricultural city in the interior of Santa Catarina, in order to transform the situations of injustice present there (although many are not easily recognized by the community), from a didactic plan inspired by ethical-critical education and Thematic Investigation. The planning was carried out in meetings in the format of a workshop, with the Prosa group, which includes a person with ties to the community, who carried out analysis of significant speeches, identified the contradictions, the generating theme and the counter-theme, as well as a study movement critical view of the situation with the identification of required knowledge. Finally, a dialogic-problematizing planning movement was also carried out in different curricular areas, addressing the contradictions discussed. From the development of such activities, it was possible to perceive the feasibility of the ethical-critical perspective in a movement of curricular praxis that starts from listening to the community, from the questioning of the dehumanizing limits identified in this listening and from the movement of identification of the knowledge demanded by the critical analysis of these situations.