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Sharaai,

Yes, to my mind, your saying that you're 'conscious of these ideas,' e.g. what you're bringing by way of assumptions and expectation, is key.  And to go to Freire for a minute, I think he's absolutely NOT speaking from the expectation that educators can or should be 'perfect' in this way -- in fact, since he sees being in process and 'unfinished' as defining what it is to be human, your idea about staying conscious and reflective while entering and working with a school community seems to me exactly the point.