The Pandemic “New Normal” and Challenges for Critical Education

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/resa2021.v14iesp..a51579

Keywords:

critical education., pandemic., Paulo Freire, neoliberalism

Abstract

The article dialogues with Paulo Freire's work to argue for a critical and historically situated view – from the perspective of the oppressed – on the social and environmental reality of current capitalism, specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors seek to bring elements that contribute to the understanding of reality in its entirety and globality, establishing correlations between historical events and social conditions, to go beyond the denunciation of neoliberal "normality" – and its effects on education, environment, on the living conditions in the global peripheries, and the so-called “refugee crisis” – to announce a critical education that is radically centered on equality and the defense of life.

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Author Biographies

Inny Bello Accioly, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Angra dos Reis, RJ

Doutora em Educação, professora da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), pesquisadora do Coletivo de Estudos Marxismo e Educação (COLEMARX/UFRJ), do Laboratório de Investigações em Estado, Poder e Educação (LIEPE/UFRRJ) e do Grupo de Estudos em Educação Ambiental Desde el Sur (GEASur/ UNIRIO). Em 2019, foi eleita para a diretoria do Grupo de Trabalho Paulo Freire, da American Educational Research Association (AERA).  

Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

Donaldo Macedo é Professor Emérito de Artes Liberais e Educação na University of Massachusetts, Boston, EUA. É coautor com Paulo Freire do livro Alfabetização: Leitura do Mundo, Leitura da Palavra (1987). Suas publicações incluem os livros Imposed Democracy: Dialogues with Noam Chomsky e Paulo Freire (2012) e Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know (2006).

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Published

2021-12-14

How to Cite

Accioly, I. B., & Macedo, D. (2021). The Pandemic “New Normal” and Challenges for Critical Education . Teaching, Health and Environment, 14(esp.), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.22409/resa2021.v14iesp.a51579