Em busca da justiça social:implementando a pedagogia (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

This article narrates the experience of three professors in their journey towards the implementation of critical pedagogy in the English language classroom. It describes the Think, Share, Act (TSA) project whose main objective is to raise social awareness in students by providing them with opportunities to get involved in social projects of their interest. The TSA was created by professors Chaves, Solano and Villalobos in the Language School at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, during the first term of 2009. Based on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy and the principles of Holistic Education, this paper illustrates how the learners were encouraged and guided to do research and fieldwork with the purpose of taking action in society. Likewise, it explains how the TSA project generated an innovative methodology to accomplish students’ transformation into social reformers. In this regard, this research shows that learners can definitely develop language skills while becoming critical citizens.

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