Critical Pedagogy And Social Transformation, From The Perspective Of Paulo Freire: Paths To Awareness In Contemporary Education

Background: In the world education ranking, Brazil shamefully appears in the last places. Several reasons contribute to this reality and one of them is the lack of interest among students in theoretical concepts that are outside the reality in which they live. One of the possibilities to increase students' interest would be related to what the student usually appreciates within their culture, such as arts and sports, for example. The arts and sports are cultural expressions that most people admire and that could be better used as a motivational tool to keep students in schools. Based on this, this research aims to understand how sport and the arts can play their role in effectively contributing to the promotion of social inclusion and academic motivation. This theoretical research brings bibliographic sources closer to cultural interests, from the theoretical perspective of Conscientização (Awareness), Pedagogy of Desire and Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy.