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What is Action Reflection Learning?
https://www.peoplehum.com/glossary/action-reflection-learning-arl
Paulo Freire and Education for Critical Consciousness
Reflection, for the influential Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, was the critical component of education. Reflection, he believed, resulted in “critical consciousness” in which learners become actors, not observers, and authors of their own decisions.
“We apprehend the objective data of our reality through reflection,”3 Freire wrote in 1973. When we as learners do not reflect on our place in the world or critically evaluate the validity of information presented to us, Freire claimed, we become passive and superficial, accepting faulty logic, untested ideas, and allowing ourselves to be swayed by deceptive arguments and polemics.
By combining action and reflection, we create what Freire called praxis — a set of practices informed by reflection. Thus our actions are not random or haphazard but informed and deliberate and we are aware of why we do what we do.
In Freire’s model of education, the teacher is a co-learner with his or her students. Freire was critical of teachers who did not believe that their students had the ability to “discuss, to work and to create.” “Education is an act of love and courage,” wrote Freire in Education for Critical Consciousness. “It cannot fear the analysis of reality, or under pain of revealing itself as a farce, avoid creative discussion.” (4)
Freire utilized the component of reflection in the adult literacy programs he devised for peasant farmers in northeastern Brazil. So successful was this educational method that formerly illiterate adults exhibited reading success in a matter of days.(5) Freire’s use of reflection and critical consciousness in adult education has been emulated by adult literacy educators throughout the globe.