One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, once said, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” This is a particular way of learning in which I have come to realize that is extremely useful for myself and my learning experience. Through my educational career, I have either thrived or struggled in the subject of English. After reading and relating to the ideas from Robinson’s, “Changing the Education Paradigm” and Freire’s “Banking Concept of Education,” I have come to the conclusion that the education system that is criticized by these two authors is one that is heading in a downward spiral and should be altered to suit the needs of all students. Through the use of divergent thinking, …show more content…
Growing up, the English language excited me. Whenever I had a writing assignment, I could not wait to start the writing process. My mother always proofread my papers and constantly told me I was a good writer. Her words of encouragement filled me with a passion for writing. However, as much as I wished that the writing process would come naturally to me, it didn’t. I was always told what to write about and how to write it, but that process always brought up the questions of “Am I meeting the prompt requirements?” or “Does this make any sense to my reader?” According to Robinson’s video on the education system, he brings up the idea of “divergent thinking.” This is the idea that students should have the ability to seek multiple ways to answer or interpret something. Sir Ken Robinson’s thoughts struck me, because if I would have thought this way throughout all my writing endeavors, I could have challenged myself and pushed the boundaries on all of my writing assignments. With the idea of divergent thinking, students are allowed the chance to have a sense of identity within their writing, and through the use of encouragement students will be inspired to be more imaginative throughout their learning process. This will transform the way students take the information they are learning to a new …show more content…
From the words of Paulo Freire, “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor” (Freire, 216). I can relate to this idea because the only reason I thrived in my education was through the use of memorization. I began to retain the information that my teachers told me and never thought further than what I was told or questioned the concepts. The way I was learning and thinking should be considered as the epitome of the “banking concept.” Furthermore, as a student I was never fully engaged in what was being taught but more focused with what I was being told to know and as Freire would say, “store it for deposit.” If someone was to ask me today half the stuff I had learned in my previous years or even last year, I could not answer to my entire capability. Freire states, “They must abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world” (Freire, 221). Problem-posing is a method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation. If I would have thought for myself throughout all my learning practices, I would have had the opportunity to expand my knowledge and evolve with
Barry Alford, the author of Freirean Voices, Student Choices is an English professor at Mid Michigan Community College. In this specific piece of writing, he states that “particularly when they find themselves following some formula organizing the topic instead of the trail of their own thinking” (P. 280). Meaning that students just do exactly what they are told to do instead of venturing out and making it their own writing. Alford talks about how students need to have more in depth and creative forms of writing rather than being boring. A major thing he believes is that students need to hear themselves and their other classmates before they start writing.
As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”
Emergent self-knowledge of personal writing influences how approaches will be taken to develop writing skills in students. Utilisation of a writer’s journal enables emerging writers to understand relationships between the purpose of a journal activity and the intended audience (Bishop, 1996, p.34). Acknowledgement of self-emergence as a writer enables the author to include additional information into their work for clarity of the text, therefore enhancing that knowledge attained, ensuring the writer understands the importance of skills associated with writing polished pieces of writing. It is important for educators to have a refined understanding of language and how it works. Research shows the more understanding an educator has on developing writing skills in their students, the task involved will become less complicated, resulting in meaningful learning experiences for students (Loane & Muir, 2017, p. xviii).
Klein's classroom is one in a million as he loves to engage with his students instead of just talking at us all the time, some days if he was in a playful mood he would do his signature trick of high jumps (he could jump from the floor to the top of the desk and out of the several times of seeing him do it he never fell), and somedays Mr. Klein simply wanted to toss the curriculum out of the window and would have a mental health day for the class filled with discussions about life lessons and inspirational videos about how to live a happy life. In Paulo Freire's "The Banking Concept of Education" he describes the relationship between students and teachers as very one sided with the teacher being the narrator and the student being a patient listening object. (Freire 71) Mr. Klein broke this common classroom environment by making it a goal to connect with his students and educate them on things outside of the "narrated content" (Freire 72) of the
Review of Vershawn Young Discussion After reading “Vershawn Ashanti Young: Should Writers Use They Own English?” against Rebecca Wheeler’s “Code-Switch to Teach Standard English (Young 111. Wheeler 108)”. Each paper expresses a different opinion regarding the teaching of English in the classrooms. Each author writes with different agendas, different tones, and different purposes. Each acts upon their beliefs as they perceive them, and as a result are poles apart.
Students learn a variety of ways and we have to adapt our teaching and lessons to ensure that all students are learning. We are educating the future, we are teaching students to become critical thinkers,
Many children throughout the world face major problems with being educated like the kids in Niger, Africa but Dylan Garity explained the reasons of what does it mean to be educated. In the poem “Rigged Game,” Dylan Garity clarifies how the disparities in education minimize bilingual understudies. One case that backings this allegation is the No Child Left Behind arrangement, which averts learning in an understudy 's local dialect. The poet utilizes the understudies, which his older sister instructs in her ESL class to express his worries about culture and education. This classroom speaks to a sort of formal education, which is tutoring that happens in a formal definition with the objective of educating foreordained educational programs.
In chapter 2, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paul Freire, he explains his view of the educational system. Freire argues that the educational system uses the wrong method of teaching, the “banking” method to teach students. He suggests a new method called “problem-posing.” He believes that this method is more effective for students and teachers. Banking education is based on teachers assuming that the students are passive and that they can take all control, determine what would be learned and just “fill” the students with facts.
America has set a precedent in global history that other countries would eventually follow. Americans themselves have been regarded as the most patriotic for their country, and egotistical at that. Now when it comes to pride and confidence, one must have something to support their claims and beliefs. In America’s case, we have one of the largest economies on the planet, and one of the strongest militaries as well. How ever, one thing doesn’t seem to add up.
Some say that our educational system is great and it gives every opportunity to become better. This has become somewhat true over time, but not entirely. An insightful philosopher named Paulo Freire asserts his views about the problematic education system being used in the sixties known as the “banking” concept in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This concept is described as an almost autonomous way of
This chapter can help young writers in English class with their papers in many different ways. For instance, Trimble gives examples on what a veteran writer does in order to make their writing interesting. He also gives out techniques on how you can get a reader’s attention or how you can fix your writing to make it readable instead of having nonsense. What makes this difficult for me as a writer is that I write what ever comes to my mind and it will not make sense. Another thing that makes it difficult for me as a writer is that I am not good at getting the readers attention and having him hooked on to my work.
The period of time explained in this is very old compared to that of Hasan Minhaj’s. In this excerpt, Freire explains the two types of concepts, the, 'banking concept ' and the, 'Problem-posing concept '. Through the course of his works in this text, he compares both the concepts of teaching but expresses his liking towards the problem posing concept rather than the banking concept of education. As Leslie Bentley has said, Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator and a popular philosopher. He grew up in the Northeast region of Brazil and his works are deeply influenced by his childhood experiences (Pedagogy).
Freire believes that a libertarian education is made up of using thought processes, not just taking knowledge from one brain and transferring it to someone else (323). This is where Freire’s “problem-posing” education comes from. This system would entail mankind to be “conscious beings” and focus on the different problems between the earth and mankind (Freire 323). This new approach to education depends on critical thinking.
Effective writing involves careful choice of words, their organization in correct order in sentences formation as well as cohesive composition of sentences. Also, writing is more valid and reliable than speech. But while speech is spontaneous, writing causes delay and takes time as feedback is not
Academic English is important to college and university in academic writing course (Jet Writers Essay Writing Contest 2015). It is required students to reading, speaking and listening, while employing evaluating and sharpen their research and writing skills for college and university environment. At the college and university level is the ever-increasing need for students to focus on language and more specifically, the specialized language found both in substance areas and the Academic Language used in teaching that content. Academic Language as the name implies is importance the kind of writing that we are required to do in college and university. It differs from other kinds of writing such as annotated bibliographies, literature reviews,