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What Are Your Overall Thoughts About Freire's Ideas?

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(1) What are your overall thoughts about Freire's ideas?
The ideas of Freire quite frankly made me revisit everything I know about education. On analyzing the bizarre connection Freire makes between the colonial oppression and education, I haven’t stopped questioning my leaning experience and the world’s approach to departing knowledge. Pedagogy of the Oppressed questions the domineering relationship between a teacher and the learner which challenges the only model of educating the world knows. However, it helped me understand what Donaldo Macedo means when he states that ‘education is inherently directive and must always be transformative’ (Freire, 2000). Freire’s ideas seek to improve the learning process by giving the student a chance to contribute in the learning process. With the world bent on drowning learners in meaningless facts, their participation in the learning process is the only way understanding can be enhanced because they experience what is taught and use it to make meaningful connections with the real world.
(2) Friere discusses two models of learning - the 'banking model' and the 'problem-posing model.' Provide examples from your own educational experiences of each model.
In my educational experiences, the banking model is used by the teachers I have encountered who have no room for …show more content…

Teacher-student relationship in education has the teacher acting as the learned master while the student has always been treated as a blank mind which makes it easier for the teacher to deny the student the opportunity to contribute in the education process. Therefore, no one has been able to adequately challenge this model because everyone is used to this process which validates our prejudice against the alternate models in the learning

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