A Self-Dialogue with the Thoughts of Paulo Freire: A Critical Pedagogy Encounter

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Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0072-073X

Abstract

This paper develops a two-voiced self-dialogue with some compelling ideals of critical pedagogy advocated by Paulo Freire: reflection, dialogue, conscientização, (conscientization) praxis, critical engagement, and transformation. This dialogue, as a critical pedagogy encounter, has allowed me to go through a process of self-criticism or hopefully a self-recognition of understandings, experiences, constructions, co-constructions, and reconstructions of my practices as a language educator. I will address the following evolving choices: On dialogue and critical pedagogy, from language as power to language as possibility, from instrumental to alternative critical pedagogy practices towards more critical understandings and doings of education.

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Samacá Bohórquez, Y. (2020). A Self-Dialogue with the Thoughts of Paulo Freire: A Critical Pedagogy Encounter. HOW, 27(1), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.520
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Reflections and Revision of Themes
Author Biography

Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez is a teacher educator at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a BEd (Spanish-English) from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, UPTC, Tunja, a graduate degree in Pedagogy of Written Processes from Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, and an MA in Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. At present, she is a Doctorate student in the ELT Emphasis at the Interinstitutional Ph.D. Education Program from the same university.

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