Critical conversations: A dialogic approach toward developing critical consciousness

The work of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC), a participatory action research (PAR) project that looks at how low income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LG-BTGNC) people survive and resist violence and discrimination in New York City, raises the question of what it means to make conscientization, or critical consciousness, a core feature of PAR. Guishard's (2009) reconceptualization of conscientization as “moments of consciousness” provides a new way of looking at what seemed to be missing from WWRC's process and analysis. According to Guishard, rather than a singular awakening, critical consciousness emerges continually through interactions with others and the social context. Analysis of the WWRC's process demonstrates that PAR researchers doing “PAR deep” (Fine, 2008)—research in which community members share in all aspects of design, method, analysis and product development—should have an agenda for developing critical consciousness, just as they would have agendas for participation, for action, and for research.

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Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.166 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jeff Chang ◽

Daniel Martinez HoSang ◽

Soya Jung ◽

Chandan Reddy ◽

Alex Tom

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Police Officers ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

The State ◽

Racial Capitalism

We chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu [the Korean term for the April 1992 uprising in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating]. We want to look at the conditions surrounding these flashpoints and the responses to them that then shaped race consciousness and politics subsequently. Today we have no shortage of crisis, no shortage of flashpoints. And yet there is hope. Perhaps more than at any other time in my lifetime, there are opportunities to shift mass culture, at the very least to popularize and normalize a slightly more critical consciousness. So now I want to turn to my friends here to talk about crisis and multiracial politics. We’ll start with Sa-I-Gu and work forward to this moment and also to future possibilities.

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Counselor Education in a Multicultural Era: The role of Critical Consciousness and Intersectionality

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY ◽

10.23844/kjcp.2020.05.32.2.667 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 667-692

Author(s):

Tae Sun Kim ◽

Joo Yeon Shin

Keyword(s):

Counselor Education ◽

Critical Consciousness

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Effectiveness of Prenatal Screening for Substance Use: Critical Consciousness, A Promising Curriculum for Compassionate Screening

Mental Health in Family Medicine ◽

10.25149/1756-8358.1301003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (01) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nooshin Nikoo ◽

Mohammadali Nikoo ◽

Michael Song ◽

Adrienne Wesnel ◽

Ali Pervaiz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Prenatal Screening

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A Poet’s Journey as A/r/tographer: Poetic Inquiry With Junior High School Students

LEARNing Landscapes ◽

10.36510/learnland.v4i1.374 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 239-253

Author(s):

Sean Wiebe

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Social Change ◽

Junior High School ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Junior High ◽

Junior High School Students ◽

School Students ◽

Poetic Inquiry ◽

Classroom Conversation

In this paper I explore the connection between a/r/tography and poetic inquiry, and how together they cultivate multiple ways of understanding. I further claim that classroom situations are most provocative of thoughtfulness and critical consciousness when each student participates in the classroom conversation from his or her lived situations. While difficult, teachers who can facilitate rich interchanges of dialogue within a plurality of voices are genuinely creating communities of difference and thus imagining real possibilities for social change.

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