ABSTRACT
How do we become conscious in the world? How do we interrogate and interrupt the hegemonic messages that have shaped who we are in the world? How do we begin to question our traditional ways of knowing the world? How do we loosen the stranglehold of the dominant culture? As Maxine Greene has asked, how do we make the familiar strange and the strange familiar? These are not new questions and presently as well as historically we have developed tools for seeing and knowing that move us beyond the dominant paradigm. Critical theory, conscientization, consciousness raising, hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and poststructuralism all represent approaches, theories and methods meant to move us beyond dominant ways of knowing and relating to each other.
