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This chapter introduces the philosophical bases of methods of participation. These philosophical ideas and the methods that flow from them were developed in Latin America and have been influential in liberation psychology. The idea of analectics, introduced by the philosopher Dussel, involves introducing that which is different from and other to oneself in a dialectic process. Rather than being pushed away that, which is other, is welcomed into the totality, enriching, and enlarging the self. The roots of Freire’s methods of social pedagogy are to be found in these analectic and consciousness methods. Methods for consciousness and liberation including problematization–conscientization as the core processes, with complementary processes such as habituation, denaturalization, de-ideologization, de-alienation, and dehumanization are described and explained.
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Montero, M. (2015). Philosophies of Participation: Analectic and Consciousness Methods. In: Bretherton, D., Law, S. (eds) Methodologies in Peace Psychology. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18395-4_11
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