Fostering Students’ Critical Awareness of Social Issues Under the Principles of Freire’s Problem-Posing Education

ABSTRACT: This action research project aimed at fostering students’ critical awareness of social issues through the implementation of Freire’s problem-posing principles in an English class. For the purpose of this study, suicide was the social issue addressed. Data were collected by means of different instruments such as surveys, students’ artifacts, journals, recordings, class activities and informal conversations. Students were exposed to different activities for six weeks which were developed following the cycle of reflection and action proposed by Wallerstein and Auerbach (2004). After the analysis, the findings showed that lessons framed within problem posing permit learners to become more aware of social issues and promote learners’ interaction and participation in the EFL class.

• Autores: Jiménez Salazar, Erika
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/16874
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/16874
• Palabra clave: Action research; Formación de docentes; Teacher education; Problema social; Social problems; Suicidio; Suicide; Práctica pedagógica; Teaching practice; Critical thinking; Language instruction; Enseñanza de idiomas; Pensamiento crítico; Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997 - Crítica e interpretación; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000722; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept9331; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept409; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept7469; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept14127; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept59; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept409
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/