PAULO FREIRE

Paulo Freire, author of the foundational adult education book Pedagogy of the

Oppressed, […] has three concepts through which he has contributed to adult
education.  First of all, he thinks it is not transformative for teachers to give students
knowledge and have students memorize it. He feels that students have something to
give back and this kind of memorizing and regurgitating does not work in adult
education because students have something to contribute to the learning
environment. The second step is critical reflection and the third step is a power-
balanced student-teacher relationships.  In other words, the student and teacher
work on the same level. Using this idea to create an environment that people feel
comfortable to share and communicate in, is especially important in adult education.
Freire believed education to be a political act that could not be divorced from
pedagogy. Freire defined this as a main tenet of critical pedagogy. Teachers and
students must be made aware of the "politics" that surround education. The way
students are taught and what they are taught serves a political agenda. Teachers,
themselves, have political notions they bring into the classroom […].

BANKING MODEL OF EDUCATION

In terms of actual pedagogy, Freire is best known for his attack on what he
called the "banking" concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an
empty account to be filled by the teacher. He notes that "it transforms students into
receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads men and women to
adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power" (Freire, 1970, p. 77). The basic
critique was not new as other theorists had posited the conception of the child as an
active learner rather than a tabula rasa, or blank slate ready to be filled.  In addition,
foundational thinkers like John Dewey were strongly critical of the transmission of
mere facts as the goal of education. Dewey often described education as a
mechanism for social change, explaining that education is a regulation of the
process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of
individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of
social reconstruction.  Freire's work, however, updated the concept and placed it in
context with current theories and practices of education, laying the foundation for
what is now called critical pedagogy.

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