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

• Published in: HOW - A Colombian journal for teachers of English Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 125 - 139
• Main Author: Samacá Bohórquez, Yolanda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: ASOCOPI, the Colombian Association of Teachers of English 01-01-2020; Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
• Subjects: conscientização; critical engagement; Critical Theory; Dialogs (Language); dialogue; English (Second Language); English Teachers; Foreign Countries; Power Structure; Praxis; Reflection; Second Language Learning; Self; Self-dialogue; Colombia
• ISSN: 0120-5927; 0120-5927
• DOI: 10.19183/how.27.1.520

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.