Migrating from naive consciousness to critical consciousness to critical consciousness in teaching/ learning: building a better Nigerian Society via freirean critical pedagogy
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2022
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Akinsanya, P.O.
Ojotule, A.O.
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Isu Dalam Pendidikan
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This paper examined the possibility of evolving a better Nigerian society which
involve citizens who could migrate from being robotic and docile, to active
participation in the building of the nation. This is basically a shift from naive
consciousness to critical consciousness. The paper adopted traditional methods
of research in philosophy, viz; philosophical analysis, to examine the critical
pedagogical methods which could help migrate from naïve consciousness to
critical consciousness; and philosophical speculation which aided in forecasting
the development which would happen to Nigerian school system and Nigerian
society given the migration. The study adopted Freire’s critical pedagogy as a
conceptual framework. The two researchers argued that most Nigerian citizens
are docile because of the system of education used to nurture them. This system
of education, enacted through conventional pedagogy which instills passivity
and naivety in the learner, has invariably made the Nigerian become helpless as
he accepts the domination, subjugation and oppression taking place by the
political bourgeois in the society. The researchers however posited that the
introduction of Freire’s critical pedagogy into Nigerian education system and
the consequent infusion of critical consciousness in pedagogues and learners,
would make the education system become critical, impactful, productive and in
fact, responsive to individual and societal needs. The study showcased
questioning technique; problematization; as well as modelling critical
thinking skills as possible methods which could evolve critical consciousness in
Nigerian teachers and learners, who in turn would create a paradigm shift in
the Nigerian society. The paper concluded by recommending that if Nigeria
is really to witness a meaningful development, then teaching and learning must
migrate from conventional pedagogy to critical pedagogy, that is, from naïve
consciousness to critical consciousness, so as to produce agents who are
critical enough to confront political arrangements which had hitherto
constituted cogs in the wheel of progress for the nation.
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Akinsanya, P.O. & Ojotule, A.O. (2022). Migrating from naive consciousness to critical consciousness to critical consciousness in teaching/ learning: building a better Nigerian Society via freirean critical pedagogy. Journal of Issues in Education, 44, 24-38.