...Instructor Brunson English 106 27 January 2013 Understanding Paulo Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education” In Paulo Freire's essay, "The Banking Concept of Education" he explains his view of the education system, and the faults within it. Freire describes how the teacher-student relationship is an important concept when overcoming oppression. Freire believes teachers and students need to constantly work together beginning to develop the knowledge and consciousness that is necessary to overcoming oppression. There are various methods which can be used to overcome these obstacles associated with the teaching of education. They are the banking method and the problem-posing education method. Freire explains the majority of the education system as being a "banking" education, he explains to be the wrong method. The "banking" education concept is described as a negative way to educate; “teachers present a subject to their students they also present a point of view in that subject.” (Freire p ) Teachers assume students are passive, take all control, enforce their opinions; determine what will be learned, and "force-feed" information to students. The world is seen as static. Students are encouraged to "fit in to" the world as it is. Banking encourages students to accept the world as it is, separates the learner and the learner's consciousness from the world, and so contributes to oppression. Freire refers to the “Banking Concept” as a metaphor that teachers see students as a...
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...February 2014 The Strength of a Problem-Posing Approach to Education The dialogue over the most effective means of facilitating education has been a hotly debated topic over the last few centuries. There are many different models used throughout history and numerous strategies utilized today to teach people from kindergarten all the way up to the post-secondary education level. One of the many great educators of the 20th century was Brazilian philosopher, Paulo Freire. His excerpt “The Banking Concept of Education,” published in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1970 established him as an important and controversial theorist. He wanted to create an education theory that would benefit the needs of the poor and the politically oppressed. His model rejects the aspect of treating education as a banking system, introduces the problem-posing approach for education, emphasizes the collaboration of the students and teachers in the classroom environment, and explains how knowledge emerges through training and constant patience. Mary E. Boyce wrote a pedagogy on critical teaching that directly supports Freire’s model of the problem-posing approach. Paulo Freire’s model of education directly opposes and rejects the traditional “banking system” model of education. Freire describes this model as “’banking,’ in which teachers deposit knowledge into students’ minds, which are empty until these deposits are made” (62). The banking system can be seen as the professor lecturing for an entire...
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...Relationships Understanding, The “banking” Concept of Education, can be accomplished in many ways. The understanding that I have, could be completely different from the person next to me, my parents, or from my teachers’ point of view. In the reading, Freire gives multiple examples of the different branches of the “banking” concept. He talks about the flaws that are in the current education system. Offering a different approach that he thinks will help with the teaching/learning problem in the current classroom. That problem being the limitation of “depositing” information by teachers to students. Rarely vice versa. The concept of the “banking” method of teaching, doesn’t help a student truly grasp the concepts being taught. Freire says, “the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is a spectator, not re-creator” (321). What I think Freire means is, that the banking concept places a rift between a person and the world. The human is the world. The world is the human. Not allowing the student to be true to his/her self while learning because supposedly, only one way of learning is correct. I feel translates to how those lessons are used in the real world. The concept doesn’t allow for the person to draw any connections from their personal lives to the world. We are all observers in this world, teachers and students. I feel that the banking concept is changing people...
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...Student: awesome guy Teacher: another awesome guy EN 106/First Year Writing seminar II: Academic Research and Writing An Obstacle in Education as a Practice of Freedom An education that is free of any oppressive qualities, is an education that will foster personal inquiry, group argumentation, and ultimately, social revolution. This would be the ideal model of education for all educational institutions; however, there is a threat looming within our classrooms and it is affecting the way students and teachers approach educational enlightenment. Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” argues about how our current educational system is denying teachers and students the opportunity to develop a dialogue, thus allowing their critical ability to develop. He dubbed this concept “The Banking Concept of Education”: Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the "banking" concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits (para. 5). The banking concept of education is affecting current educational systems by guiding both educational patrons and their students in a direction of oppression and conformity. This is being done by taking away any potential interactions between...
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...Nowadays education becomes very important and significant issue in the world since people started getting wealth, because families believe good education can bring bright future to their children and countries needs education to cultivate their talents which helping push forward the development of the countries. Parents and government spends a lot of money on tuition and school construction, respectively, in order to providing best education to the kids. But sometimes it doesn’t help. Thus, most of educators are trying to find a best way of teaching. In the passage “The “Banking” Concept of Education”, author Paulo Freire summarized two ways of education which are Banking education, and problem posing, and they are totally opposite to each other. Banking education method is like action of deposing that students are depositories and teachers are depositors which make education such more efficient. In contrast, problem posing is like teacher promote and encourage students to be creative. Both of them have their drawbacks and benefits. So, which one of them is the best way of teaching? Based on my own experiences, I think problem posing is best way to help studying in the earlier studying life, because children needs to open their mind and being more creative, but in the further life of studying banking education seems more suitable for them, because they already have a creative mind and the only thing they needed is learning more efficient which can be given by banking education. Banking...
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...problems to education based of a concept narrative of the teacher. This concept of narration is a problem because is based on filling the student without the option to explore what learned. In this type of education Freire says that can more the sonority that the transformations of the words. That means that the education tends to be mechanical where the creativity is invisible and not seen like a valid option. In the lecture Paulo Freire inserts the banking concept of education, where the student is like an account of the bank, the teacher is the costumer and the education is deposited and filed. The banking concept of education lacks of wisdom, since the stiffness of this education don’t allowed the imagination to build beyond the learned. The students don’t recognize that they also can educate the teacher and this is because are immersed in the ignorance where this system of education maintained. According with Freire the individualistic concept of teacher and student has to be overcome to be a unifying concept in which the teacher and the student learn from each other. The banking concept has a distorted vision of generosity, distortion that the students don’t see; its mission is to forge an adaptation that leads to domination. The banking concept had the domestication concept where the student is submissive because there is no interaction of ideas between the teacher and the student. The domestication doesn’t coincide with the liberal education. The liberal education promotes...
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...Paulo Freire writes “The “Banking” Concept of Education” to inform readers about the education system and to persuade readers with his opinions and statements that the “banking” concept of education should not be adopted in the education of students rather it should be the “problem-posing” method. In his writing he explains the education system as “A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students)… Education is suffering from narration sickness.” Freire believes that education is suffering from a relationship of a teacher that speaks and a student that just listens to what the teacher will narrate. For example, “the outstanding characteristic of this narrative education… is the sonority...
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...The education system in America lacks the communicational connection. In the essay “The Banking Concept of Education,” Paulo Freire relates his personal experiences of oppression in his native country. Freire argues there are two types of conceptual tools; Banking concept of education and problem posting method. In the tradition type of education, however, the teacher stores the information the student listens. The goal of banking education was to immobilize the student within the existing structure, conditioning them into memorize the materials. I felt the ability to overcome the fear of memorize lessons. In a sense, we all are a result of “banking” education. Freire concept of education, he conveys the student do not think for themselves. I feel a student should have the initiative to ask questions until they receive a greater understanding then the knowledge is learn rather than just delivered. He also writes on the problem posting method when the student listens and the teacher are the narrator. This method leads the student to memorize the teacher content. I feel, the more engaged the teacher is about the material the more the student is also engaged. The education becomes a “communion” between participants in a dialogue; rather than a one sided opposition. The oppressed must test their own internalization or the oppressed will not think for them. Students can’t learn much just by memorization and repeating what they see or hear. Freire used the example “four times four...
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...with how education has been conducted since the 19th century. In his essay, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire compares two concepts of education that are present today, banking and problem-posing. In banking teachers assume students are passive, take all control, determine what will be learned, and “fill” students with pre-selected information. Problem-posing education allows people to develop their human natures fully because it depends on dialogue, recognizes the relationship between people and the world, encourages discovery and creativity, and leads to transformation. Freire criticizes the banking method throughout the essay and clearly praises problem-posing in more than just an educational settings. From the very beginning Freire creates an urgency for change with his word usage, imagery, and exaggerated examples. For instance, narration sickness is a term used when the teacher talks about a subject as if it were “motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable.” Narration also leads the students to be ‘containers’ to be ‘filled’ by the teachers. Necrophilia is another one of Freire’s exaggerated imagery, comparing the banking concept and oppression to the love for the dead. As stated by Freire,”The necrophilous person is driven by the desire to transform the organic into inorganic, to approach life mechanically, as if all living persons were things…Memory, rather than experience; having, rather than being, is what counts.” Freire first introduces the “banking” concept...
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...Banking Concept of Education Philosopher and educator Paulo Freire once said, “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” In Freire’s work of “the Banking Concept of Concept”, he describes how the education system is failing to help student find success in the real world as well as it provides a framework for the “teachers” to oppress the “students” through the distribution of power. The “banking Concept of Education” describes a system of education in which the teacher’s main goal is to fill their students head with information, much like making a “deposit” at a bank, from which the student are expected to memorize and retain this information such as a bank holds money, ““Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor”. (Freire 2) Evidence in Freire’s work states, “His (teacher) task is to "fill" the students with the contents of his narration—contents which are detached from reality.” (Freire 2) Another point being made in Freire’s writing from this quote is that the information that the students are learning will not help them in the real world. From this the concept of the oppressors (teachers)...
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...according to his exaggeration and the teacher is the depositor. These are the concepts that lead the human beings becoming overloaded. Students are just asked to get used to with the world as it is and this simply means that they remain submissive, unhesitating, and subservient to commanding roles. One of the good points that he points out is that the main reason for traditional concept for not being in effect is for the reason that there is no teacher-student exchange of ideas and the innovative mind is repressed. Freire criticized this model of education because he supposed it made students into lifeless objects to be act on behalf of the teacher. In log-term this will result in the students uncomplaining and adapting...
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...into containers (students) and the containers accept. “The student records, memorizes, and repeats…without perceiving” (1) what they are saying. There is no reciprocal learning happening, that you are told information and you regurgitate it back to prove your knowledge and understanding. “The teacher teaches and the students are taught.” (2) “The more completely he fills the receptacles, the better a teacher he is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.” (1) He considers this to be the “banking concept of education. In which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits”, which he also deems as incorrect, that there are indeed other ways to educate that produce better people. Freire goes on to argue that the banking concept should be left in the past and teachers should instead use a problem-posing concept. He believes that students must be able to see that what they learn can have an effect on the world thus have the ability to change the world. That, “sooner or later they may perceive the contradiction in which banking education seeks to maintain them, and then engage themselves in the struggle for their liberation.” (4) For example, if you pose a problem to the students and ask them ways to change/remediate the problem, the process becomes more practical and realistic. 2. Drawing upon your own...
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...In what ways do Freire and Pratt agree? Education must complete a full circle. Directional conversations should contain balance and patience. Doing this aids in the effort of growth. Freire explains in The “Banking” Concept of Education, if men and women are searchers and their ontological vocation is humanization, sooner or later they may perceive the contradiction in which banking education seeks to maintain them, and then engage them in the struggle for liberation. In this Freire elaborates there must be a true relationship between student and teacher. Any task without a purpose lacks reason. It is in our being to crave understanding. It is in our DNA to evolve. Our eyes have been set centered and forward. To move forward is in all that we are. Do not follow an ontological path, create one! When engaged upon conversations seek all of its contents. Pratt states in Art of the Contact Zone, “Descriptions of interactions between people in conversations, classrooms, medical and bureaucratic settings, readily take it for granted that the situation is governed by a single set of rules or norms shared by all participants.” Every turn you make a game waits. How you play the game is entirely up to you. Be mindful of all view points and ask yourself, “What is their angle?” Pratt later explains, “A classroom is analyzed as a social world unified and homogenized with respect to the teacher, whatever students do other than what the teacher specifies is invisible or anomalous to...
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...Blackburn (2000) discusses the concepts of Freirean thought with its objective to liberate oppression through human evolution. Where, unlike animals, humans are consciously aware, creating the ability for humans to think outside the box and evolve. Blackburn believes that according to Freire by being more aware, you have the tools to make decisions and take action (4-5). In this instance it is important to understand Freire’s definition of oppression. Blackburn (2000) observes that Freire’s definition of is aligned with Marx as it relates to humans in the class system confined by structure and the Marxist philosophy of the Bourgeois. The difference between Marx and Freire is that Marx foresees a society where people are free from the class system, where Freire’s theory is based on a continual cycle of evolution where people learn from real life...
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...“The Misinformation of our Education System” The education system in America lacks the communicational connection. In the essay “The Banking Concept of Education,” Paulo Freire relates his personal experiences of oppression in his native country. The Brazilian educator devoted his life of adult literacy. Loewen essay “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” argues the American history textbooks have the wrong facts. The sociologist feels the American students are lied to and misled in their history classes. Freire and Loewen essays both are informative account of a failed education system. Although scholars capitalized education, they failed to apply the importance in one education system. Freire argues there are two types of conceptual tools; Banking concept of education and problem posting method. In the tradition type of education, however, the teacher stores the information the student listens. The goal of banking education was to immobilize the student within the existing structure conditioning them into memorize the materials (Freire.web). I felt the ability to overcome the fear of memorize the lesson. In a sense, we all are a result of banking the education. In my early days, in high school, I had some experience of understanding the lesson. Robinson 2 I can remember my history teacher given me an assignment to complete in class; of just what she...
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