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The world freirean community is constituted by institutions and people that, by ideological affinity, eco-political-pedagogical practices and knowledge conceptions inspire themselves in the legacy of Paulo Freire, even that not all had elected Paulo Freire as patron or even without adopt the name “Paulo Freire”. All of them, in a certain way, assume the experiences of freedom education, what we understand as being a freirean paradigm. This community is composed by institutes, chairs, schools, centers of studies and research, directories and academic centers, faculties and other organized institutions in all continents.
The Chairs, specifically, are institutions almost always autonomous, even that almost linked and hosted by public and private universities and, in general, develop activities with the perspective of studies for internal training, research, courses, mini-courses, lectures, publications and social intervention actions, in several levels. We already had notices from Paulo Freire Chairs in cities of several countries, such as Avellaneda, Rosário, Entre Rios, Luján e San Luis (Argentina), Campo Grande, São Paulo, São Roque (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Cartagena, Barranquilla e Cauca-Popayán (Colombia), Heredia (Costa Rica), Holguín, Cienfuegos (Cuba), Valencia (Spain), Chapingo, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara (Mexico) e Caracas (Venezuela).
At the Instituto Paulo Freire Brazil works two chairs: “Cátedra Paulo Freire” and “Cátedra do Oprimido”. The first one is coordinated by the “Centro de Referência Paulo Freire” (in English, Reference Center Paulo Freire), one of its maintained entities. It dedicates itself in a first moment to the internal training and has a calendar for 2013 with structure programming to develop dialogues and synthesis on three of the main Paulo Freire’s work and promises to publish soon, subsided by these meetings. In a certain way, the goal is in deepen reflections about life and work of Freireand update his legacy through collective studies and productions that comply with the theoretical-practical demands of freirean community.
“Cátedra do Oprimido”, coordinated by Prof. Dr. José Eustáquio Romão, is composed by a researchers group that, in post-graduation level, dedicate themselves to research of “Paradigmas do Oprimido” (in English, Paradigms of the Oppressed). Its main goal is to do a meticulous investigation in all spaces and social to cultural dimensions of oppressed. It is hosted at the Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), in São Paulo. Professor Romão is director and teacher at the Post-graduation Program in Education at this University.
And raises another one…
The World Council of Paulo Freire Institutes approved the participation of the “Grupo de Estudos” and “Grupo de Pesquisa” (in English, Studies Group and Research Group) of Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS) as a center linked to “Cátedra do Oprimido”, of Universitas Paulo Freire/UNINOVE. The divulgation was made in the 8th International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum, held at the University of California (UCLA), in LA, USA, in September 2012. The information was given to the director of Pedagogical Organization of Pro-rectory of Graduation at UFFS, Adriana Salete Loss, who was at UCLA presenting a work.
According Adriana’s report, the groups will have as focus the idea of Popular University. The works will be inter campuses methodologically developed and the groups already are institutionalized at UFFS. The participation will be open to professors, both technical and administrative people and students that are interested. It also could integrate the studies partner institutions, if they wish.
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS) is an institution of public higher education situated in the city of Chapecó, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. It was created by the Decree No. 12.029, 15 September 2009, and it embraces all 396 cities of “Mesorregião Fronteira Mercosul” – South-west of Paraná, West of Santa Catarina and Northwest of Rio Grande do Sul.
The calendar and event of “Cátedra do Oprimido”
In April 2013, this center socialized with UniFreire its planning for the whole year. Through the epistemological circles (as main methodological procediment), the group will discuss “Educação Popular e Ensino Superior na Perspectiva Freiriana” (in English, Popular Education and Higher Education in the Freirean Perspective). From the main generator theme Popular Education, will be generate dialogues on sub-themes: Popular education and the popular principles at Popular University: the instituting and the instituted; Access to university; Permanency and evaluation of teaching-learning process; The thought curriculum, the instituted and the instituting; Popular University Pedagogy: teaching, research and extension; University Management and popular participation in social movements.
Each one of the three campuses linked to the Chair will be responsible to organize their monthly studies meetings. Bimonthly will be the general meeting of the group, that will alternate the headquarter between all three states, in a total of 44 hours distributed during this year. The sub-themes were divided between the poles, that, including, are already in charge of present the drafted texts by each of them, from the dialogues in the Circles.
Until May 2013, while the Circles will be happen in the poles, the event “Cátedra do Oprimido” will be in structuring process. From June 2013 the final texts, relative to the investigations that the meetings will generate, will start to be socialized and will be initiated the organization of publication that will gather them. The intention is that the event happens on 24 and 25 September of this year.
This group from “Cátedra do Oprimido” is coordinated by Adriana Loss, Lísia Michels, Solange Todero Von Onçay, Adriana Losso and Sandra Nogueira. Gathers, in this moment, over than 15 people with masters and PhD degree, 03 graduated and/or specialists and 02 graduation students, all from the 03 campuses. The contacts of Cátedra in UFFS can be made with the professors Adriana Loss (adriloss@uffs.edu.br), from Campus Chapecó, Solange Todero Von Onçay (solange.oncay@uffs.edu.br), from Campus Laranjeiras do Sul, or Adriana Losso (adriana.losso@uffs.edu.br), from Campus Erechim.