Scientific-technological and socio-environmental dimensions in Paulo Freire: the constitution of a humanizing interface between Environmental Education and STSE Education.
Science Education; Freire-STSE-EE Articulation; Freirean perspective; Humanizing interface.
The aim of this work is to investigate the contributions concerning the scientific-technological and socio-environmental dimensions of Paulo Freire for the constitution of a humanizing interface between Environmental Education and STSE Education in the context of Science Education in Brazil. For that, it started from two mutually complementary analytical movements: a theoretical approach, deepening in works and works of authors whose ideas guide the existing discussions in the fields investigated here; and an empirical approach, characterized by the analysis and legitimation of dimensions of science, technology, society and nature amalgamated with Paulo Freire's political-pedagogical reflections, considering three inseparable moments in the author's life and work: a) his birth and development in soil of Recife (1921-1964), in which the work Education and Brazilian Current Affairs was analyzed; b) his departure from Brazil due to the establishment of the civil-military coup and his international experiences (1964-1979) in which the work Pedagogy of the Oppressed was analyzed; c) his return to Brazil in a democratic context until his death (1979-1997), in which the work Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving the Pedagogy of the Oppressed was analyzed. The investigation carried out relied on Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) and the epistemological exercise of understanding and explaining cultural creations. The results point to the presence of scientific-technological and socio-environmental dimensions in Freire's thinking that contributed to the emergence of a humanizing Freire-STSE-EE interface that announces itself to be based on three fundamental and inseparable elements: a) Worldviews and socio-environmental values; b) Places and social contexts of shared training, and; c) Insurgent knowledge and practices. Such an interface, aimed at overcoming the culture of silence and existential contradictions that hinder the historical vocation of human beings to be more, argues in favor of the oppressed so that they face the oppression of which they are victims and emerge on the stages of history in order to fortify the understanding of human formation in the society-nature relationship and the need for political struggle as an indispensable element of an education in sciences that proclaims itself revolutionary and defender of life in its fullness.