Critical Consciousness
The concept of critical consciousness is tha ability to perceive social, political, and economic oppression and to take action against the oppressive elements of society (as defined by Paulo Freire). Freire definitely had made a number of important theoretical innovations that have had an impact on the development of educational practice. For example when he helped third world peoples gain an awareness of worldly matters while he had taught them to read. I believe it’s important to gain a critical awareness in the developed world and undeveloped world within individuals because we can then avoid all the oppressive acts in society and not be so blind towards the issues most of us don’t see. However, this is easier in developed worlds because of all the distractions with new technology and the fact that they are “must haves” by us nowadays makes it even worse.
