Paulo Freire's legacy in the training of Educators in formal and non-formal teaching spaces

Abstract

The present work is an experience report developed at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Farroupilha (IFFa) located in the central-west region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, from two training spaces for teachers. The first, an institutionalized/formal space developed in the Licentiate Degree in Physics and Degree in Mathematics Courses at IFFa, São Borja campus. The second, a non-formal education space, developed from an extension project open to the regional community in a popular education scenario called “Café com Paulo Freire”. The training spaces mentioned here have been constituted and characterized as important tools in order to seek the identity formation of Teacher Training Courses at the IFFa campus São Borja, as it is understood that the principles that constitute Professional and Technological Education and organize the education advocated in the Federal Institutes, approaching the theoretical and philosophical propositions present in Freire. Furthermore, these spaces are currently constituted as places of resistance and training in order to strengthen the search for emancipatory and progressive policies.