Banking Concept VS. Problem Posing
Bank Concept Education
- Students retain information instead of understating why
- Students “receive, memorize, and repeat” all information given to them
- EXAMPLE: In elementary school students just memorize the times tables but don’t really know how or why they go that answer
- Teachers think they are all knowledgeable and students are ignorant
- Teachers act like they are higher than students and that students wouldn’t be anywhere without them
- Out of this comes libertarian education where both are the teachers and students. Students can learn from teachers but at the same time teachers learn from students
- “oppression – overwhelming control – is necrophilia”
- Necrophilia = obsession with death and corpse
- Oppressed students student have no opinion, they are no creative so they are almost dead themselves
- Teachers expect students to be this way
Problem Posing Education
- Exact opposite from banking concept
- Whatever problem is coming up the answer is always changing
- Problem posing stimulates creativity and true reflection
- From this students grow, they move forward and look ahead to the future by understanding the past
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