Public Advocacy Summary

The title to Chapter Three in our Communication, A Critical/Cultural Introduction: is “Commitments and Responsibility,” written by John T. Warren, and Deanna L. Fasset. This chapter discusses “What is Public Advocacy?” “The Brazilian educator and profound innovator in literacy instruction,” “Paulo Freire,” “Problem-Posing Approach”, along with “Reflexivity”. These concepts, terms, and famous communicators may seem hard to grasp to a non-communication major. However, more clarified for those who may have an idea of what these terms mean, specifically those who are studying communication as their major. Public Advocacy can be described as “engaging the public careful, reflective, thoughtful, and responsible communication toward an end that seeks a better world for our communities and families” (Warren & Fasset). For example, someone that might stand up and form a night watch group to make the residents in the community feel safer. This can also include, a political figure, or someone with the proper

Freire, “is a model of advocacy” (Warren & Fasset). Explaining this further, Freire, made many impact moves in the field of communication. Creating the terms, “Problem-Posing Approach, Reflexivity, and Praxis”. The great teacher that he was, also, taught farmers how to read and write in a time when they were too uneducated to learn themselves. As well that he, included the statement “he helps both teachers and students think differently about their contributions in the classroom” (Warren & Fasset). As imaginable, this impact not only affected the future of many people but also the changed the way classroom was taught. In today’s society there has been more deep discoveries in the classroom. Such as having more impact ways to communicate and connect with the material more efficiently, while creating new ideas that broadened the way teachers and students learned, thanks to