Abstract

PALLARES-PIQUER, Marc. Remembering Freire in Times of Change: Critical Consciousness and Education. REDIE [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.2, pp.126-136. ISSN 1607-4041.  https://doi.org/10.24320/redie.2018.20.2.1700.

The aim of the study is to analyze the contradiction that exists in studies that, while demanding changes in education, establish a supposed realism in practice as the origin of a change that, paradoxically, the school’s objects of study give credit to. Consequently, the demands for change become mere reproductions of variations that already existed. The methodology used is a hermeneutic review of Paulo Freire. A proposal is made to integrate his concept of critical consciousness (conscientização) - the process by which people are encouraged to explore reality and consciousness - into the “theory-practice” binomial. The outcome is that critical consciousness turns out be a cultural action process through which we are able to retrieve the reality of our sociocultural situation and move forward beyond the limitations of educational changes, allowing us to assert ourselves as conscious subjects and co-creators of our future.

Keywords : Educational change; pedagogy; awareness; educational practice.

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