RevArte: Dialogic Education is Education for love and transformation

Abstract

Members of a community research circle formed by immigrant parents of Latin American origin from a cultural center in the northeast of the United States, resorted to the participatory action research method proposed by the Colombian sociologist Dr. Orlando Fals Borda, and to the concepts of humanizing and dialogic education of the Brazilian educator Dr. Paulo Freire to carry out a case study. The group investigated the abuse of the Migratory Police against immigrant families. Thus, both Freire and Borda were read, the members of the group learned the method, designed the instrument, applied in-depth interviews, and coded them. As a result, the group found that the public educational system, both teachers and administrators, are unaware of the social reality and the institutional violence of which their families and students are victims. He found that the school system could not solve this case because it did not have adequate resources. The investigation indicates that the victim is in institutional limbo due to public policies that do not allow her to heal from this experience. Therefore, the group proposes Freire's principles to influence the design of educational public policies that work with immigrant communities.