O inacabamento freireano e sua aproximação com teoria da Neotenia: discussões e implicações para a educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

The interest for the realization of this research occurred with the participation in the project, assisted by Prof. Luiz G. Gonçalves, entitled "Guidelines for the Education of Young People and Adults from the Paths of Access to Socially Relevant Knowledges" (2016). In this study, it was possible to better understand the reality of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), through observations made during visits to a school in the municipal network located in a peripheral neighborhood of the city of João Pessoa. However, it was in the meetings held with the group of the Pedagogy of the Field class, of the UFPB, during the night shift, throughout the discipline Foundations of Education of Youths and Adults, that we had the first contact with studies that they looked for to substantiate the theory of human unfinance through the theory of neoteny. Therefore, in this bibliographic study, the goal of this research is the problematization of the concept of human unfinished, developed by Paulo Freire (1996) in his book "Pedagogy of Autonomy: knowledges necessary for educational practice". The theory of neoteny gained importance in this research for its educational implications, especially in the teaching and learning processes of the EJA. This theory helps to rethink the argument of human immaturity and maturity, based on the principles of permanent human prematurity, favorable to learning, even in old age.