Uma análise brasileira do filme “Os Escritores da Liberdade

Abstract

This text aims at analysing the film “Freedom Writers” under the perspective of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. It proposes reflecting upon a dialogic, conscious, transforming educative practice, in which teachers and students have similiar and important roles. We take the hypothesis that “there is no teaching without learning, they explain each other, and the individuals, despite the differences, are not reduced to the condition of objects, of one another”(Freire, 1996, p.23). We highlight one of the main pressupositions of the Freirean model, that no one educates anyone, and no one educates him/herself. The other category we use is of education as a freeing practice. For Freire, education leads to freedom, to a radical change in reality in order to improve it, to make it more humane, to allow men and women to be understood as subjects of their own history, instead of objects of it.