THE PRINTED NEWSPAPER, THE CRITICAL READING AND THE RELEASING PRACTICE OF PAULO FREIRE

The present article, "The printed newspaper, the critical reading and the liberating practice of Paulo Freire", is a partial result of a historical and methodological research for the area of education that, in the light of Paulo Freire's ideas, seeks to promote the combination of the use of printed newspaper to the children's literacy process. In this perspective, using hermeneutics as a method (RICOEUR; HEIDEGGER), and as a methodological resource qualitative approach, by Bogdan and Biklen (1994), the study promotes a reflection on the construction of the social being articulated to the literacy process, contemplating a space and time frame of the school in its contemporaneity, searching for resolutions to the problems experienced by the students, who were constituted through a mechanical and mnemonic literacy process, excluding the construction of the action of reading and writing, citizenship, conscience and autonomy. The analysis about the Liberating Progressive Pedagogy is present throughout the text in order to highlight its importance for Brazilian education, as well, as it's social value in the process of forming the child that constitutes the first cycle of elementary education. The objectives explore the concept and relevance of communication in the school context, above all, in what way educommunication, through the use of the printed newspaper, is able to assist the practice of reading, making the subject's awareness process viable, aligned with the content exposure. The article addresses the characteristics of dialogical education, pedagogical practices and forms of communication proposed by Paulo Freire (1986, 1988), Baccega (2003) and Martin-Barbero (1997), resulting in the confirmation of the hypothesis that the use of printed newspapers as a dialogical pedagogical resource can significantly assist in the construction and reconstruction of knowledge, in particular for the process of acquiring reading and writing - writing reading and reading writing, as well, as for the formation of the conscience of the student and his/her role in the social group to which he/she belongs.