Texts for question 60.

"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion.… He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

ACHEBE, Chinua. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease. New York: Penguin Classics, 2017.

“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed; nor can it afford to impose the teacher’s cultural patterns upon them.”

FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970.

"Once critical pedagogues see schools as cultural arenas where distinct social and ideological forms find themselves in constant conflict, what they shall be seeking is society transformation through education, including language education."

SIQUEIRA, Sávio. Critical pedagogy and language education: Hearing the voices of Brazilian teachers of English. Education Sciences, Basel, v. 11, n. 5, p. 235, May 14, 2021.

It is reasonable to affirm that Freire (1970) is the main author in Brazil to propose Education as a social practice. In the field of English language teaching, there are many approaches and perspectives aligned with Freire’s ideas, such as Siqueira’s (2021) way of rethinking the English teaching process in the context of 21st-century Brazil.Considering the relationship between these two authors perspectives and the quotation from the main author of African literature, it is correct to affirm: