Summary Of The Banking Concept Of Education
Iria Rivera-Nieves
Professor Gage
ENC1002
12 September 2017¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, Paulo Freir proclaims his views on the faults in the educational system. Freir sees education as a process of depositing knowledge into passive students. Freir uses the concept of banking to explain the educational system as wrong and proposes a new idea, that he believes will be more effective, the new method of “problem posing” education.
Freir uses the term “banking” to critique the educational system. Freir explains that education becomes the act of depositing, using the teachers as the subject and students as passive objects. The students are the empty containers, the depositories to be “filled” with whatever the teacher is teaching. The teachers are the depositors, filling the student container with what they call knowledge. …show more content…
They are taught to memorizing what they are being lectured on. Freir also says because of this idea the students cannot be truly human. Students cannot express their own ideas or share their own thoughts and different opinions on what they are being taught or being discussed by their teachers. Students are not gaining knowledge because they are not learning how to bring the knowledge into their lives. Students are taught in a form for which they can truly understand the knowledge that needs to be learned.
Freire gives an alternative form of teaching, the method of problem-posing. Problem posing education is the opposite of banking education, in the sense that it is based around the student. Freir explains that in problem posing education is not as black and white as the teacher educating the student and the student listening, as in banking, but it will have the teacher and the student teaching each
Professor Gage
ENC1002
12 September 2017¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, Paulo Freir proclaims his views on the faults in the educational system. Freir sees education as a process of depositing knowledge into passive students. Freir uses the concept of banking to explain the educational system as wrong and proposes a new idea, that he believes will be more effective, the new method of “problem posing” education.
Freir uses the term “banking” to critique the educational system. Freir explains that education becomes the act of depositing, using the teachers as the subject and students as passive objects. The students are the empty containers, the depositories to be “filled” with whatever the teacher is teaching. The teachers are the depositors, filling the student container with what they call knowledge. …show more content…
They are taught to memorizing what they are being lectured on. Freir also says because of this idea the students cannot be truly human. Students cannot express their own ideas or share their own thoughts and different opinions on what they are being taught or being discussed by their teachers. Students are not gaining knowledge because they are not learning how to bring the knowledge into their lives. Students are taught in a form for which they can truly understand the knowledge that needs to be learned.
Freire gives an alternative form of teaching, the method of problem-posing. Problem posing education is the opposite of banking education, in the sense that it is based around the student. Freir explains that in problem posing education is not as black and white as the teacher educating the student and the student listening, as in banking, but it will have the teacher and the student teaching each