Three Levels Of Awareness In Frederick Douglass Obstacles Of Education
During our first semester in our EDU class we read about differents authors, which talk to us about obstacles to education. It was very interesting to me because as a student I had go through many different obstacles of education.
The first author we read was Frederick Douglass a twelve years old slave living in the south of United States. This slave learned how to read and write without an academic education, by that time of slavery, slaves had not right and everything for them was an unlimited edition. His mistress used to help him and teached him the alphabet. With the alphabet learned, he had everything he needed to keep going through his path to learn how to read. He planned to convert into his teachers these poor white children from …show more content…
Praxis are the things in what we can reflect on to do some kind of action to make society a better place. The three levels of awareness that youth have to go through to progress in praxis are Self-awareness, Social Awareness and Global Awareness. The self- awareness is basically about the identification of the individual, where they have to learn who they are as race, class, gender and sexuality. After their know themselves, then they pass to the Social Awareness stage, this is where they will understand social issues and will be able to identify what kind of problem they have in their communities. The last stage is global awareness, after they rezoning about the issues our society is going through they will be able to encourage themselves to take action in two differents way. First, they have to study and understand the various historical forms of oppression and the systems that have make people around the world suffered. Then, they have to connected with others that have go through suffering and resistance to oppression, which will be related with them. After they go through these stages youths will see the world in a different way. They will be able to make the necessaries changes to become a better person for society. Also, they will see the world with a lot of possibilities, which they maybe had before but were not able of see
The first author we read was Frederick Douglass a twelve years old slave living in the south of United States. This slave learned how to read and write without an academic education, by that time of slavery, slaves had not right and everything for them was an unlimited edition. His mistress used to help him and teached him the alphabet. With the alphabet learned, he had everything he needed to keep going through his path to learn how to read. He planned to convert into his teachers these poor white children from …show more content…
Praxis are the things in what we can reflect on to do some kind of action to make society a better place. The three levels of awareness that youth have to go through to progress in praxis are Self-awareness, Social Awareness and Global Awareness. The self- awareness is basically about the identification of the individual, where they have to learn who they are as race, class, gender and sexuality. After their know themselves, then they pass to the Social Awareness stage, this is where they will understand social issues and will be able to identify what kind of problem they have in their communities. The last stage is global awareness, after they rezoning about the issues our society is going through they will be able to encourage themselves to take action in two differents way. First, they have to study and understand the various historical forms of oppression and the systems that have make people around the world suffered. Then, they have to connected with others that have go through suffering and resistance to oppression, which will be related with them. After they go through these stages youths will see the world in a different way. They will be able to make the necessaries changes to become a better person for society. Also, they will see the world with a lot of possibilities, which they maybe had before but were not able of see