Announcing a just world and denouncing injustice are linked moments within one historical act

Evidence

Denunciation of a dehumanizing situation today increasingly demands precise scientific understanding of that situation. Similarly, the annunciation of its transformation increasingly requires a theory of transforming action. Yet, neither act by itself implies the transformation of the denounced reality or the establishment of that which is announced. Rather, as a moment in a historical process, the announced reality is already present in the act of denunciation and annunciation. (Freire, 1985, p. 57) As one reads through Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Contemporary Perspectives, it will be clear that chapter contributors not only “scientifically” write in their denunciation of unjust practices, policies, and ways of doing things relative to their chapter focus, but they also write in order to announce a way toward the door of transformation that leads to a more just and right world. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 120

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Freire’s denunciation/annunciation theoretical pairing, a foundherent concept in critical pedagogy.
• APHORISMS: Reads as genuine praxis advice: denunciation unaccompanied by announced transformation does not itself change reality.