• SANGEETA PANDEY
• AZKIYA WARIS

Freire believed that Education is a liberating process but it cannot liberate people from their misery unless it arouses awareness in them. This process of arousing new awareness is called critical consciousness which means a campaign to increase or raise public awareness. It is a practical need in present educational and social context to bring desirable changes in society. Freire adopted ‘problem posing method’ for his ultimate purpose of "critical consciousness” to remove the "culture of silence" from the society not only of his age but for the future also. Critical consciousness and dialogue both are involved with teaching of adults to enable them of reading and writing in relation to arousing consciousness among them regarding their social condition. So in this paper we come to realize the importance of critical consciousness in the sphere of social change.

KEYWORDS: critical consciousness, social change, culture of silence, banking education, problem posing education

"CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN SOCIAL CHANGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.1070-1078, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808640.pdf

"CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN SOCIAL CHANGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp1070-1078, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808640.pdf