{"id":257,"date":"2019-03-20T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=257"},"modified":"2019-03-20T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:36:40","slug":"consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my EDF class, we have to read a book called <em>Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and culture from Confucianism to Human Rights <\/em>and the chapter we had to read this week mentioned Paulo Freire and how teachers and parents aren&#8217;t engaging children in discussions about what they think. By doing so this prepares children to be &#8220;unthinking objects of history&#8221;(210) and Freire sees this as a way of oppressors penetrating a person&#8217;s consciousness, so they will be able to be taken advantage of. This relates to hook&#8217;s when she warns us if we keep thinking there is a split between theory and practice, then we &#8220;deny the power of liberatory education for critical consciousness&#8221;(69) and if we think this way, we are reinforcing repression. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my EDF class, we have to read a book called Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and culture from Confucianism to Human Rights and the chapter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/consciousness\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consciousness<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}