Decoding codified situations moves people from real to potential consciousness

Evidence

The great achievement of Gabriel Bode is that, by means of the dialectics between the essential and the auxiliary codifications, he has managed to communicate to the participants a sense of totality. Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs. In this way, they can go beyond the level of real consciousness to that of potential consciousness much more rapidly. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 339

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the real/potential consciousness distinction driving Bode’s method.
• XREF: Connects to Freire’s real-to-potential consciousness arc and to the reader’s goal of moving learners from submerged to reflective.