Evaluation meetings make each decoder’s perception challenge the others’ perceptions.

Evidence

The evaluation meetings represent a second stage in the decoding of the unique living code. As each person, in his decoding essay, relates how he perceived or felt a certain occurrence or situation, his exposition challenges all the other decoders by re-presenting to them the same reality upon which they have themselves been intent. At this moment they “re-consider,” through the “considerations” of others, their own previous “consideration.” Thus the analysis of reality made by each individual decoder sends them all back, dialogically, to the disjoined whole which once more becomes a totality evoking a new analysis by the investigators, following which a new evaluative and critical meeting will be held. Representatives of the inhabitants participate in all activities as members of the investigating team. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 325

Categorization

• XREF: Dialogue as co-construction of knowledge — parallels the intersubjective epistemology in Communication as Culture.