Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

concientización

English translation:

awareness-raising

Added to glossary by Laura Molinari
May 3, 2001 19:42
23 yrs ago
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Spanish term

concientizacion

Spanish to English Social Sciences Government / Politics
Legislación, concientización y sensiblización ambiental.
Change log

Feb 6, 2006 06:26: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Government / Politics"

Feb 6, 2006 06:27: Fuad Yahya changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

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"raising awareness" or "awareness-raising"

As you will see frm the following examples, there are various ays to phrase this kind of expression:

http://www.un.org/documents/ecosoc/cn17/1996/ecn171996-14a1....

"UNDP has initiated 11 new interregional and regional activities that were dedicated to or included environmental education, training, education and awareness-raising components."


http://www.eeri.org/News/Dec99/Dec99.html

"He plays a key role in disseminating the prevention message through high-level scientific and technical meetings, raising awareness and sensitizing decision makers within developing countries to the issue of urban seismic risk reduction."


http://www.global-horizons.com/web2.htm

"These categories are: family violence; violence against women; challenging discrimination (racism, sexism, religious biases, ageism, etc.); youth issues; victimization prevention; raising awareness; legislative and social policy reform; policing issues; prison reform and offender rehabilitation; alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (to violence or the courts); partnerships between local government and civic groups; and judicial training."

I hope these examples help show various possible ways to fit the expression into the sentence.

Fuad
Reference:

See citations above

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awareness

In fact "concientización" is the action of making another person aware of something. I don't know if there is an exact term for it in English.

Hope th is helps! :-)
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Astrid Elke Witte
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environmental legislation, consciousness-raising and

sensitizing. (No es fácil dar una única acepción fuera de la frase entera).
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environmental legislation and awareness-raising

"Concientización" and "sensibilización" can both be expressed with "awareness-raising", which has largely replaced the earlier "consciousness-raising".
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