A Paulo Freire's work and legacy in the encounter with the black movement:

questions about the training of teachers

Abstract

In a period of pandemic and isolation, “Black Lives Matter” showed the world the strength of the black movement based on struggles against public security forces  in the face of the genocide of black people. This American movement  about the black movement in Brazil. Such movements teach us to think about necropolitics and coloniality, but also about countercolonization and the struggle for education as a practice of freedom in confronting racism, prejudice and the mortality imposed by State policies in Brazil. In order to do this, it is necessary to think about the training of teachers, as we understand the need to deconstruct a static training process and the construction of teaching as a political activity that takes place in its complexities, with specific, singular characteristics. Thus, it demands and mobilizes new teaching perspectives of engagement, struggle and transformation that exist in Paulo Freire's work and legacy, in his writings, and in his practice a broad and reliable inspiration. Therefore, we will reflect the training of teachers as a fundamental way to fight oppression, exclusion, stigmatization and annihilation generated by racialization in the country. For that reason, this article presents the relationships between the black movement and the work of Paulo Freire.