EPISTEMIC INTERVENTIONS ON BARBARISM AND HATE RHETORIC AGAINST PAULO FREIRE

Abstract

This paper deals with a study on barbarism and hate rhetoric against Paulo Freire, seeking elements that make explicit the contemporary discussion of scientific evidence in literacy, which brings in its core an erasure of the Freirean ideals, as well as constructive conceptions related to Education. This study also aims to describe the ideological signs of this cultural war and its reverberations, reflecting on the discourse of scientific evidence and the resumption of phonemic literacy. To achieve this, we will make use of the Textual Ethnography Method (ROCHA, 2021), which involves dense description and critical interpretation of the manifestations of the current government managers and the recurrence of intertextuality (BRANDÃO, 2004. KOCH & TRAVAGLIA, 2016; TIPHANE, 1968), that is, the relationship between the described utterances to reveal the assumptions and repercussions of the culture war against Paulo Freire’s ideas, as well as against the science of education, particularly, against the foundations of constructivism. The initial perceptions signal a return to literacy practices based on the phonetic method, conducted by private institutes based on “scientific evidence”. The question stands for: What does this mean? Have previous studies in the field of literacy not produced scientific evidence? This is the series that this study intends to dismantle and unveil.