Consciousness-raising (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.
  2. any method for increasing interpersonal awareness or sensitivity by teaching people to experience a situation or point of view radically different from their own: The women's group has tried to change macho attitudes through consciousness-raising.
  3. an act or instance of increasing the awareness of one's own or another's needs, behavior, attitudes, or problems.
noun
    • the process of developing awareness in a person or group of a situation regarded as wrong or unjust, with the aim of producing active participation in changing it
    • (as modifier)
Consciousness-raising (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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