The Legacy of Paulo Freire for Curriculum Policies and Teaching in Brazil

Abstract

Based on Paulo Freire thinking and his main ideas about curriculum, this paper presents curriculum policies and teaching in Brazil. It is argued as Paulo Freire thinking continues to constitute an important matrix which shall keep inspiring the theory and practice of all those who engage in the commitment to a democratic education, and more than that, to all those who claim the right and duty to change the world, towards a social project founded in principles of social justice and of human being ethics.