Revisit Paulo Freire in search of tenderness

Abstract

This article is the result of thinking in motion. An exercise in digging through the lived, the studied in the search of knowledge creation that can help us deal with the daily challenges of living, we walk searching tenderness. We focus on the dark scenario of the story we are going through. We highlight the suffering caused by the pandemic and the necrophilic policy installed in our country since 2018 and the way in which the context marks people's lives, to the point that many people are on the verge of exasperation. There are several sides in the fight fot the right to life. In this study, we take as analysis the ongoing policy of subjectivation that tries to produce us as powerless, inferior and insignificant. It tries to control and suffocate our existence. We reaffirm that our desire is to live a dignified life, a good life, with reasons to celebrate. We look for shelter, a simple place where we can bathe, feed, rest and celebrate. We dug through the lived in search of tenderness, so we revisited Paulo Freire because we believe that the way in which he made his words and philosophy available, enables education as a practice of freedom. In this way, popular education is an experience of tenderness.