Name the educator who developed 

critical pedagogy 1 mark

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Critical pedagogy was founded by the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire
Know who critical pedagogy was first practiced on       1 mark
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Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and
challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. In other words, it is a theory
and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness. Critical pedagogic educator Ira
Shor defines critical pedagogy as

Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first
impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom,
and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and
personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text,
subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.

Define critical consciousness                                          5 marks

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Critical consciousness, conscientization, or conscientização in Portuguese, is a popular
education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo
Freire, grounded in post-Marxist critical theory. Critical consciousness focuses on achieving an
in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of social and
political contradictions. Critical consciousness also includes taking action against the oppressive
elements in one's life that are illuminated by that understanding.
Assess the teacher's role in critical pedagogy                5 marks
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Teachers should develop educational plans that draw upon the social assets that understudies
carry with them to the school. This recommends not just taking the dialects, narratives,
encounters, and voices of the understudies truly, yet additionally incorporating what is
educated in schools to the elements of regular daily existence."

• they should have the option to basically break down the belief systems, qualities, and
interests that educate their job as educators and the social legislative issues they advance in the
homeroom.

• They must have the option to break down their relationship with the bigger society to
basically capture themselves as friendly specialists equipped for perceiving how they may be
complicit with types of persecution and human anguish.

• they should have the option to see how force functions profitably through the poetics of
creative mind, that is, they should have the option to recognize reality as a reality and
presences a chance. In any case, such dreams should be fashioned not in seclusion but rather in
fortitude with others.

• "Without trust there is just the legislative issues of criticism."

• "We should quit preparing instructors to be basically productive professionals and

specialists. We need another vision of what establishes instructive initiative so we can teach
instructors to think basically, find themselves in their own chronicles, and exercise good and
open duty in their job as connected pundits and extraordinary erudite people."
Identify critical pedagogy's primary goal                       3 marks

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The goal of critical pedagogy is emancipation from oppression through an awakening of

the critical consciousness, based on the Portuguese term conscientização. When achieved,
critical consciousness encourages individuals to effect change in their world through social
critique and political action in order to self-actualize.