Concept information
Preferred term
conscientization
Definition
- Conscientization is an emancipatory pedagogical process developed by the educator Paulo Freire that is designed to teach students, through critical literacies, how to negotiate the world in a thoughtful way that exposes and engages the relations between the oppressor and the oppressed. Its central educational objective is to awaken in the oppressed the knowledge, creativity and constant critical reflexive capacities necessary to demystify and understand the power relations responsible for their marginalization and, through this recognition, begin a project of liberation. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research; Conscientization]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/conscientization
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