Od pedagogiki emancypacyjnej do filozofii Marksa, czyli o alfabetyzacji ekonomicznej we Freirowskim elementarzu dla dorosłych A Luta Continua
From Pedagogy of Emancipation to Marx’s Philosophy, or Economic Literacy in the Freirean Primer for Adults A Luta Continua

Summary/Abstract: The main reason of this article is to present textual content of handbook for adult illiterates A Luta Continua. This freirean primer was used during decolonisation period on São Tomé and Príncipe. The action for basic literacy ended with remarkable success because of focusing on material conditions of everyday adult students’ life. Social issue was represented widely in the handbook, and analysis of text lead to conclusion that Marx’s philosophy is significant for economic literacy curriculum. However there are two important problems with philosophy of Marx. First of all, ideological involvement of theory of education caused marxism „allergy”. The second problem is that prominent representative of critical pedagogy, Giroux, who had great impact for Polish critical pedagogy, denigrated marxism as a theory which paralyze actions for social change. That is why the article contain elaborated introduction, which is an attempt to locate Freire’s philosophy of education in discourse of critical pedagogy. The second part of the article is reconstruction of beginnings of „Freire’s method”. The third part contains analysis of reading texts which are the textual collection for economic literacy curriculum. It is stressed in the conclusion that language of freirean handbook for adults’ literacy is enough critical–comparing to critique of political economy project–but it is more pragmatic because of taking adult learners’ experience as a basis more than teaching avant-garde.

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