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critical praxis  

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  • Praxis is the union of action and reflection and of theory and practice. Paulo Freire refers to praxis as the reassertion of human action for a more human world on two levels, the individual and social, where the simultaneous changing of circumstances and self-change occur. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Critical Praxis]

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