Decolonizing the human: the role of liberating education in reframing human rights

o papel da educação libertadora na reconstrução dos direitos humanos

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.25.086.DS06

Keywords:

Educação libertadora, Pensamento descolonial, Direitos humanos

Abstract

The hegemonic discourse on human rights consolidated by Western modernity exhibits colonial characteristics rooted in a homogeneous and Eurocentric conception of humanity. Decolonial thought offers tools for an epistemic rupture with this rationality and the construction of a pluriversal paradigm of human rights. In this direction, emancipatory education provides both theoretical and practical foundations. This article aims to investigate, through the hypothetical-deductive method and bibliographic research, the potential of liberating education to dismantle colonial logic and enable the effective universalization of human rights. It questions how liberating education, from Freire’s (2022) perspective, can contribute to confronting the colonial matrix and establishing a pluriversalist perspective on human rights. The article concludes that liberating education supports the overcoming of oppressive structures that sustain coloniality in the realm of human rights, fostering individual, collective, and ultimately political liberation.

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Author Biography

Laerte Radtke Karnopp, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul)

Doutor em Direito pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Mestre e bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel). Licenciado em Letras (UFPel). Auditor no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul). Advogado.

Published

2025-09-11

How to Cite

Karnopp, L. R. (2025). Decolonizing the human: the role of liberating education in reframing human rights: o papel da educação libertadora na reconstrução dos direitos humanos. Revista Diálogo Educacional, 25(86), 1186–1201. https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.25.086.DS06