The political formation of the pedagogue and the levels of consciousness in Freire

Abstract

The objective of this article is to know and analyze the degree of interest of the students of a degree in Pedagogy for the political formation that impacts on the critical world view from the types / levels of consciousness identified by Paulo Freire. The theoretical basis is centered in Freire, Gohn, Simson, Fernandes, Trilla etc. It is a qualitative, descriptive and analytical research of the participant type. The techniques involved in data construction were: questionnaire and interviews. The sample was composed of 40 subjects enrolled in Pedagogy, in the morning and night periods, in the year 2018. The locus of the research was a private higher education institution in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The analysis of the data was made taking as categories the four types of consciousness pointed out by Freire (1980), namely: the magical consciousness, the naive, the fanatized and the critical. The results conveyed point to the necessary and careful professional formation of pedagogues in times of crisis, who are conscious and critical, participative and active, who understand and assume as political subjects and capable of social transformation, through the personal and collective way and when participation in the critical training of children, youth and adults in the field of formal and non-formal education.