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What does Paulo Freire seem to mean by “humanization” and “dehumanization”?

What is “critical consciousness”? → the ability to “intervene in reality in order to change it.

“I have encountered, both in training courses which analyze the role of conscientização and in actual experimentation with a truly liberating education, the “fear of freedom” discussed in the first chapter of this book. Not infrequently, training course participants call attention to “the danger of conscientização “ in a way that reveals their own fear of freedom. Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic. Others add that critical consciousness may lead to disorder. Some, however, confess: Why deny it? I was afraid of freedom. I am no longer afraid!”(2)

How could oppressed people be liberated by having critical consciousness?

“The awakening of critical consciousness leads the way to the expression of social discontents precisely because these discontents are real components of an oppressive situation”(5)

Using some quotes from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, explain how this mental liberation works to reverse the effects of colonization on people.

“Men and women rarely admit their fear of freedom openly, however, tending rather to camouflage it — sometimes unconsciously — by presenting themselves as defenders of freedom.”

In the conversation between Horton and Friere, what do they mean by “practice” and “knowledge”?

“without practice there is no knowledge,”

“peoples knoledge in which the body has much more place that in our way of thinking and knowing”

“knoledge is always becoming ”

What does Horton consider as authentic knowledge? In your community engagement this semester, what might be ways for you to “practice” to accumulate this type of authentic knowledge?

practicing at the sparh center it would be essential to practice in order to gather knowledge