ABSTRACT:
The title of this paper has been the “generative theme” of the 2nd International Conference Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy. In this paper, the authors start from a brief analysis of critical rationality in teacher education as an alternative to the so-called technical and practical views in the preparation of new teachers, and then they present a more theoretical and conceptual discussion about the differences between the terms “teacher education for social justice,” popular in countries such as the United States, and “teacher education through social transformation” - the term the authors defend in this paper. From there, they discuss some characteristics that should not be lacking in a teacher education program through social transformation, to analyze a concrete experience of this type of teacher education: the experience that came from the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, in Brazil, in the 1990’s and in the beginning of the 2000’s.
Keywords:
Teacher education; Critical rationality; Social transformation; MST