Conceição Paludo

Educação popular como resistência e emancipação humana

The article aims to contribute to the debate established today on the conception of Popular Education in Latin America. The theoretical and analytical matrix is the Dialectical and Historical Materialism and the research has a bibliographic and qualitative approach. We start from the observation that this education conception is in the process of reformulating its theoretical foundation. In this reflection, we seek to rescue its origins and accumulated history, as well as understand its present time. We conclude by highlighting theoretical aspects to be faced and deepened and by outlining some challenges posed to the field that assumes it, so one can continue contributing to the processes of resistance aiming at human emancipation.