DEMOCRACIA E EDUCAÇÃO EM DIREITOS HUMANOS:

UM DEBATE SOBRE O PNDH-3 E O NEDH À LUZ DA PEDAGOGIA FREIREANA

Abstract

The article discuss the relation between democracy and human rights in the perspective of the pedagogy of the oppressed made by Paulo Freire, taking as context the recent controversies around 3rd National Program for Human Rights (PNDH-3) and the Plan national Human Rights Education (PNEDH). For this, it shows initially the human rights as political construction, and the impossibility of its neutrality in a complex society, witch is organized into classes and social groups with interests often directly antagonistic. Inspired by the theory of Karl Marx, it analyzes the limits and possibilities of human rights in the existing capitalist society, especially in the case of the oppressed peoples in the periphery of the current world system. It is precisely in this geopolitical perspective that is builded the pedagogy of Freire, wich the essential characteristics and fundamental differences in relation to other political and epistemological teories are identified in order to contribute to building a human rights education based on the Latin American otherness.