Education in rights and citizenship instruction: epistemic elucidation as from Paulo Freire

Abstract

Education is undoubtedly a factor that contributes decisively to human development. In this sense, the present study searches to evaluate, based on freirean assumptions, the contemporary scenario of education in Brazil and its reflexes in society. From a historical and structural analysis, the problems that are established as impasses to a contextualized, plural and accessible education are put in check, as we think new paths, from the epistemology of Paulo Freire, for the real performance of students in human rights and citizenship.