CONSCIENTIZATION PROGRAMME Conscientization Program on 'Drug Abuse in School' A Week Campaign at LVHS Pothencode Introduction Conscientization or critical conscious is a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire. It focuses on achieving an independent understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions. It also includes taking action against the oppressive elements in one's life that are illuminated by that understanding. Thus from 3 July to 6 July 2018, we decided to conduct a conscientization program, a week campaign on drug abuse in school. To analyse the adverse effect of drugs and social, economical, mental, physical well being of an individual to prepare a questionnaire and distributed it among students to collect that up af...