Visions of future in Freire and Dewey: Intercultural perspectives on the (post)colonial matrices of the Americas

Authors

  • Maria Manuela Duarte Guilherme Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n44.7708

Keywords:

Dewey. Education for Citizenship. Freire. Future. Interculturality Postcolonialism.

Abstract

This article offers  a comparative analysis of John Dewey’s and Paulo Freire’s visions of the future, as a fundamental legacy of their work, having in mind the different cultural and epistemological environments that constituted the intellectual backdrop and socio-historical baggage of their works. Their visions of the future are here also approached from an intercultural perspective within the framework of two different (post)colonial matrices embodied by North and South Americas. This article attempts to unveil the underlying historical, political and social substrata influencing the form and essence of the rhetoric and ideology of such conceptual and academic frameworks of reference in the field of education and pedagogy in the 20th century. Finally, the valuable theoretical-practical legacies of both philosophers of education are here emphasized for the purpose of an idea of future in the educational policies and pedagogical practices of cosmopolitan societies of the 21st century.

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Author Biography

Maria Manuela Duarte Guilherme, Universidade de Coimbra

Doutora em Ciências Sociais – Educação pela Universidade de Durham, Reino Unido. Pesquisadora sénior do Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.Projecto de Pesquisa: – GLOCADEMICS, financiado por Marie Curie Actions, Comissão Europeia, European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n° 625396.mariaguilherme@ces.uc.pt

Published

2017-11-22

How to Cite

GUILHERME, Maria Manuela Duarte. Visions of future in Freire and Dewey: Intercultural perspectives on the (post)colonial matrices of the Americas. EccoS – Revista Científica, [S. l.], n. 44, p. 205–223, 2017. DOI: 10.5585/eccos.n44.7708. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uninove.br/eccos/article/view/7708. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.