Join CLAS and the Teachers Across Borders project at the Universidade Federal do Parana (Brazil) for a virtual teacher training opportunity on the principles of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire applied to the 21st century education and classroom. The facilitators of this event are Dr. Angela Walesko and Dr. Adriana Brahim, from the Universidade Federal do Parana. The workshop will take place at 5:30 p.m. (EST) / 6:30 p.m. (Brazil) / 4:30 p.m. (Colombia).
This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.
Abstract
This workshop introduces the principles of the Brazilian educator and thinker Paulo Freire applied to the 21st century education and classroom. Its main objective is to discuss and reflect on Freire's educational legacy, mainly his contemporary philosophy. For that, the discussions proposed aim at promoting an intercultural dialogue and reflection among the participants, mostly teachers, educators and teacher educators, from diverse areas of knowledge and from several cultural and educational contexts in the U.S and Latin America. The interactions will be synchronous during the event and will be based on publications in which Freire revisited a few of his theoretical positionings. Special attention will be given to perspectives on teaching and teachers presented in the book Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (1998). Also, participants will have the opportunity to better understand some of the main Freirean concepts, such as palavra-mundo, banking education and pedagogical praxis, and relate them to their educational contexts.
Bios
Dr. Angela Maria Hoffmann Walesko is a full professor teaching Methodology and Teaching Practicum at Letras (Languages) at the School of Education at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil, where she also works as a researcher, advisor and professor for the graduate Professional M.A for Basic School teachers. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She coordinates the Teachers across Borders UFPR university project.
Dr. Adriana Brahim is a full professor at the Federal University of Paraná and works in the Graduate Program in Letters and SEPT. She is currently coordinator of Language Policies at UFPR and coordinator of the University Extension Program CAPA - Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica. She leads the Language Education Research Group (GPELIN/DGP/CNPq) and is a coordinator at the Teachers across Borders UFPR university project.
