Illiteracy In Adult Education

For Freire illiteracy is an obstacle to mental progress and the creation of liberal mentality. He believes that qualitative and quantitative education is substantive to democratization of culture and to the development of the country. However, since there were about twenty million children, teenagers and adults illiterate in Brazil in 1964, therefore the country was suffering
In general, people do not want conflicts and to prevent such from happening, the minority in the society just gives way by letting themselves be conformed to the dictates of the society. They have already assumed powerlessness, lacking education, to be heard by the people in authority airing their valuable contributions to effect such meaningful changes that they desire
Here Freire changed the atmosphere of rendering students quality learning experience through the following: First, He employed classroom coordinators that serve to organize an eye-opener learning activity that meets and satisfies the needs of the students— intellectual, emotional and moral—and that surfaces evocative information. Here he engaged the students in a meaningful interpersonal, interactive classroom discussion that clarifies situations or promote an action from that clarification, instead of learning from the passive teachers that forces students to absorb their educational reality. Second, he purposely created reality discussion topics that are centered on the prevailing life situation of the people and the condition within their country. This active exercise has permitted the people to figure out and to comprehend their participation in the problems their society is facing, instead of learning from lectures that only provides an imaginative theory of the truth for the students. Third, he lets the students feel that they are valued participants and not students that have to that have to submit to every instruction they receive to accomplish. Fourth, words possess rich meaning and power in communication and writing. Freire, provided for people who do not
in addition, He said that in certainty man’s relation to reality is expressed as a subject to an object, resulting in knowledge which man could express in language.(pp.43) The idea is simple and intelligible for humans to clearly perceive the data of reality and the more human precisely seize true causality, the more critical their understanding of reality going to be. The modes of consciousness are identified as follows: First, “Naïve consciousness” apprehends causality as inactive, established fact and thus is deceived in its perception. While “Critical consciousness” represents things and facts as they are practically experienced, in their causal and circumstantial correlations, “Naïve consciousness” controls facts, and thus is free to understand reality as it pleases. Second, “Critical consciousness” works functionally together with reality; “Naïve consciousness” overlaps on reality. Third, “Magic consciousness,” in contrast, is simply absorbing facts. It leads people to full submission to the power of facts; However “Fanatical consciousness” is a pathological naivety that brings people in adapting reality in an irrational manner. Comprehension and awareness corresponds to a certain action.