The freirian methodology and influence in young people's and adults' education education: The construction of critical thinking

The main objective of this research is to describe the importance of teaching young people and adults based on Paulo Freire's methodology, whose basis preaches a liberating education that promotes critical and autonomous thinking. The methodological approach was qualitative, bibliographic, and exploratory. The results that emerged from the analysis were that Brazil in recent years has advanced by means of Paulo Freire's approach, which has contributed to the reduction of school inequalities and to students being able to acquire reflective consciousness. We believe that the liberation of the subject for an autonomous life should be the priority of basic education and especially of EJA, since it is the teacher's duty to make the student form himself in a critical way and be able to think and reflect about the things that are around him autonomously. It is not enough to teach how to read and write: it is necessary to teach people to read, an attribute that comes before reading and writing.