ABSTRACT:
This article undertakes an intercultural analysis of Paulo Freire’s and John Dewey’s texts, having in mind their cultural and epistemological contexts, within the framework of two distinct (post)colonial matrices, that constituted the intellectual backcloth and the sociohistorical baggage of both authors’ works. It intends to add an intercultural and postcolonial perspective about their philosophical and epistemological foundations to the comparative studies that have merely focused on their axioms related to education and pedagogy as if they were cultural and epistemological universals. Therefore, it attempts to recuperate their theoretical and practical legacies for the purpose of the intercultural pedagogies of citizenship education in contemporary cosmopolitan societies.
Keywords:
Freire; Dewey; Intercultural dialogue; Postcolonialism; Citizenship education