Critical Reflection 2 — Cultural Humility and Ethnographic Approach

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Critical Reflection 2 — Wisdom Through Humility

Critical Reflection 3 — Decolonization, Liberation, and Critical Consciousness

“The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is…

Critical Reflection #3: Decolonization, Liberation, and Critical Consciousness

In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire (1968) states the following about dehumanization:

…marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a…

CR#3 Freire: The Power of Authenticity

Critical consciousness is the way in which a person is finally aware of their surroundings. As the unoppressed, it is so easy to fall into the life we know and accept without question, so when critical consciousness is introduced to us before our very eyes, it…

Critical Reflection 2: Understanding Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Healthcare

Cultural competence refers to being able to understand and effectively communicate with people across different cultures. On the other hand, Tervalon and Murray-Garcia…

How to Submit your Critical Reflections

1. Under the personal account icon, click on New Story to start a draft. Always give your…

CR#3: Liberating the Oppressed

Humanization is a process where a person or persons gains humanity. This can be the liberty to exercise our human rights and maintain this notion that we are all people so we should be treated as such. Dehumanization is “a distortion of being more fully human” (Friere ch.1)…

CR1: Out of the Comfort Zone

Service-Learning allows students to grasp the reality of the concepts taught in the classroom through meaningful interactions within their community. After assuming the role of a service-learner my freshman year, I have transformed my identity in a few ways. I served at two…

Critical Reflection 3: An exploration of critical consciousness and the relationships of theory and knowledge

Paulo Freire in his literary work “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” defines “dehumanization” as “only those whose humanity has been stolen but also…

Prompt for Critical Reflection 3: Education for Social Change