US readers misread conscientization as attitude change rather than praxis-joined transformation

Evidence

Many times people will say to me that I seem to be suggesting that it is enough for individuals to change how they think. And you see, even their use of the enough tells us something about the attitude they bring to this question. It has a patronizing sound, one that does not convey any heartfelt understanding of how a change in attitude (though not a completion of any transformative process) can be significant for colonized/oppressed people. Again and again Freire has had to remind readers that he never spoke of conscientization as an end itself, but always as it is joined by meaningful praxis. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 98

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies conscientization as always joined to meaningful praxis, never consciousness-change alone.
• XREF: Reinforces the reader’s standing interest in action/reflection unity.