Conscientização (conscientization) (see Chapter 7) is not a process that is static, nor formulaic; rather it is a process that assumes an understanding of our unfinishedness and the critical place of the dialectical interweaving of reflection and action (praxis), implying that this understanding is a "requirement" in becoming more authentically human "if we are to deepen our awareness of our world, of facts, of events, of the demands of human consciousness to develop our capacity for epistemological curiosity" (Freire, 1998, p. 55).