Liberation requires the oppressed to critically reflect on power before acting

Evidence

Thus, the central goal of Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is to awaken in the oppressed the knowledge, creativity, and constant critical reflective capacities necessary to unveil, demystify and understand the power relations responsible for their oppressed marginalization and, through this recognition, begin a project of liberation through praxis which, invariably, requires consistent, never-ending critical reflection and action. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 111

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Freire’s core definition of education as praxis joining critical reflection to action.
• XREF: connects to: Liberation appears immediately necessary only to the oppressed; The oppressed must reach conviction as Subjects, not receive it as objects — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 171; Oppressed people must fight as full human beings, not become objects first — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 174

Broader Connections

• The oppressed must reach conviction as Subjects, not receive it as objects #expands (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 171
• Liberation appears immediately necessary only to the oppressed #expands (0.75)
• Oppressed people must fight as full human beings, not become objects first #expands (0.72) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 174