Coscientizzazione come atto politico. Il dialogo educativo freiriano con studentesse e studenti universitari per una cittadinanza globale

Global Citizenship Education, for all, throughout life, and in all contexts (GENE, 2022) calls for the promotion and generation of critical, problematizing, and participatory processes within a dialogical and transformative perspective. In the global and local political, social, and economic climate, the goal of global citizenship represents a crucial and indispensable challenge. In this scenario, in university pedagogy, the appeal to Freirean educational practice is necessary and urgent, not to encourage an emergency, uncritical, and passive response, but instead to foster transformative, emancipatory thinking and practices of agency and conscious and divergent socio-political engagement. The primary objective is to combat induced ignorance, magical thinking, and fatalistic logic to support and promote a critical engagement with reality. In this direction, this paper will present a laboratory experience, aimed at creating a scientific product for the systematization and dissemination of Paulo Freire’s pedagogy, in relation to current needs, through the use of “generative themes” (Freire, 2002; 2014a; 2014b). The laboratory is an integral part of the teaching of Social Pedagogy and Deviance.