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In his revolutionary work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1970, Paulo Freire describes what is still the dominant model of teaching today. In this model, students are viewed as empty “bank accounts” to be filled with knowledge by teachers — not as participants who have a say in what and how they learn. This model is not designed to enable s
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Critical education theorist bell hooks, echoing Paulo Freire, calls this a “banking” model of education: we treat human learners as if they are safe-deposit boxes for knowledge and ideas, mere intellectual receptacles for beliefs. We then think of action as a kind of “withdrawal” from this bank of knowledge, as if our action and behavior were alway
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What is essential is that learners, though subjected to the praxis of the “banking system,” maintain alive the flame of resistance that sharpens their curiosity and stimulated their capacity for risk, for adventure, so as to immunize themselves against the banking system.
Paulo Freire - There is no teaching without learning
Freire's primary objective, and critical pedagogy's aspiration for all of us, is the production of knowledge, because it is in producing knowledge that change is likewise produced, that history is owned by its subjects. In "A few reflections around Utopia," Paulo Freire writes that "As beings programmed for learning and who need tomo
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