conscientização
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Assuming that education should be emancipatory rather than dogmatic and dictatorial, below I present a case for why rebelling against yourself and the status quo is pedagogically valuable to both students and the teaching profession. What I say by the way of providing context may seem oversimplified and perhaps even radical in tone. Such is…
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“[E]ducation is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire.” Gert Biesta paraphrasing W.B. Yeats. Freire’s call for teachers to engage their students in a process of conscientização— of awakening their ‘critical consciousness’ so that they might confront and react to the socio-political realities of themselves and others, the injustices in which they…
Megapedagogy 