Popular education: knowledge, resistance, and human emancipation in educational practices

Abstract

The result of postdoctoral research, this work brings together didactic and pedagogical products from dissertations focused on Popular Education, highlighting formative practices built in contexts of struggle, resistance, and human emancipation. Based on experiences with rural communities, women, educators, and social movements, the book presents primers, guides, mandalas, pedagogical notebooks, and e-books as instruments of social transformation. Anchored in the Freirean perspective and the dialogue between scientific and popular knowledge, the research reveals processes of autonomy, identity, human rights, and collective protagonism. Intended for school and non-school settings, the work reaffirms education as a liberating practice and a means of constructing historical subjects.