The idea of facilitating the environment that empowers one to move toward an active subject requires dialogical spaces in which one is an authentic participant where voice is encouraged in the cultivation of democratic spaces. These spaces allow for what Paulo Freire calls conscientização (conscientization), an unfolding process that awakens critical awareness, a process that is not static, nor formulaic; rather conscientization assumes an understanding of our unfinishedness, as we become more aware as knowing subjects of the world in critically examining sociocultural realities. Particularly where unjust forces are at work, the critical examination of reality leads to intentional activism in order to facilitate the transformation or change of that reality.
– from the chapter “Enabling the Praxis of Liberation Theology” in The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love by James D. Kirylo
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Published on November 12, 2023 14:00