What is PEDAGOGY?

This is a method
of communicating or sharing
knowledge.
 -relationship
PEDAGOGY
between teacher and
the student
 -can be subtle
PEDAGOGY
weapon for
domination or
liberation
 Pedagogical Approaches/Methods

The The The

Apprentice Banking Dialogue
Method Method Method
 -”apprentice”
1. The
Apprentice
-learning role identity or
Method learning to be like, rather
than learning to be oneself
Encyclopedia Britanica states:
“The one who does not know (the apprentice)
watches the one who does (the master); he
imitates the master, probably fails, watches
again, tries again, and so on until he knows-
what the master knows.”
 1. The Apprentice Method

- based on “the superiority-inferiority

relationship”, that is the master (who
knows) over the apprentice (who does not
know)
 1. The Apprentice Method

gives little room for initiative and

-

creativity
 1. The Apprentice Method

-interest of the one who would want a man

to repeat and reproduce all that is
transmitted to him
 What can you say
about the Apprentice
Method
 2. THE BANKING METHOD

sophisticated version of the “telling” or

-

“narrating” pedagogy
 2. The Banking Method

-students are viewed as “containers” or

“receptacles” which teacher must fill with
knowledge or information
 2. The Banking Method

-students are some sort of “tabula rasa” or a

“passive vessel” to be filled
 1.The teacher teaches and students are
taught.

Banking 2.The teacher knows everything and

students know nothing.
concept of 3.The teacher thinks and the students
education are thought about
4.The teacher talks and the students
by Paulo Friere listen meekly.
5.The teacher disciplines and the
students are disciplined.
 6. The teacher chooses and enforces his
decisions, and the students comply

Banking 7. The teacher acts and the students have the

illusion of acting through the action teacher

concept of 8. The teacher chooses the programme content

education and the students (who are not consulted) adopt
it.
9. The teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with
his own professional authority; which he sets in
by Paulo Friere opposition to the freedom of the students

10. The teacher is the subject of the learning

process, while the pupils are mere object
 2. The Banking Method

-replicate and reinforce the prevailing social

arrangement where those who know and those
who have wealth always dominate those who
are ignorant and poor
 2. The Banking Method

-banking concept of education serves the

interest of the “oppressors” who care neither to
have the world revealed nor to see it
transformed
Are you in favor
with the Banking
Method?
 3. The Dialogue Method

-contrast to the apprenticeship and banking

concept of education
 3. The Dialogue Method

-the “teacher of the students” and “the students

of the teacher” is replaced by a new paradigm”
Teacher-students and student-teacher
 3. The Dialogue Method

- both teachers and students become “jointly

responsible for a process in which all grow”
 3. The Dialogue Method

-no one has a monopoly of knowledge so that

“the authority of teacher” is set aside
Do you like the
dialogue
method?
 SUMMARY
1.Apprenticeship Method – repetition of what others
do or know
2.Banking Method – seeing students as passive
vessels to be filled
3.Dialogue Method – recognizing the capacity of the
students through intellectual intercourse