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What is Conscientization/Critical Consciousness

Chapter 5
Scholarly Publishing and Research Methods Across Disciplines
This is the process of becoming aware of the power dynamics that are keeping a person, or a people oppressed. This cone through questioning and is a goal of critical pedagogy. However, in the Freirian context, this realization must lead to action to be real critical consciousness or conscientization.
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Whose Side Are We On?: A Call for Critical Solidarity With Participants in Education Research
Michael L. Boucher Jr. (Texas A&M University – San Antonio, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7730-0.ch005
Abstract
This chapter seeks to build a new theory in education research, critical solidarity with participants in education research. The theory uses critical pedagogy as a beginning point as expressed in the work of Paulo Freire and subsequent theorists. In Freirean fashion, the researcher asks the question, but the participant is the questioner of their own experience. In this way, the research, in which the authors attempt to empower participants, is a pedagogical tool.
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