A photograph on a seminar needed to be captioned. The banner hanging behind the speakers seated on the dais had words such as 'concentisation' and 'sensitisation.' An editor wrote the caption and checked if he wrote the word 'concentisation' the way it spelt on the banner. He did. But doubtful he was still about the existence of such a word as it was not listed in dictionaries kept handy. He asked another, who was also unsure about the existence of the word, but somewhat nodded in favour of its passage. The word could not also be found in Chambers.
A Google search showed it should spell 'conscentisation,' which is the process of the development of critical consciousness through reflections and action, a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilina Paulo Freire 'to address a state of in-depth understanding about the world and resulting freedom from oppression.'
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