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who proposed the "Pedagogy of Liberation"): the theory of
"empowerment", at the basis of any social work. In this sense, I believe
that museology, in its most basic principles and practice, may be a tool
for "empowering" people in their daily fight for survival, not only
physically and materially, but morally and psychologically. If we believe
in the power of Museums and of Museology in helping the "integral
development" of human beings and of their communities, we must accept
this power cannot, and should not, stay only in our hands. Learning how
to share our powers and capacities with the communities to which we
belong is, in my view, the great challenge for the museum world today.
As I mentioned in my starting point, this is a matter of power
relationships, a powerful question, indeed.
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Lotman, Iuri - 1981 . 'The modelling value of the concepts of 'end' and
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Freire, Paulo and Macedo, Donaldo. 1990. Literacy, reading the world
and the word. Ed.Paz e Terra, Rio de Janeiro.
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