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THE BANKING OF EDUCATION
Is a term used by Paulo Freire to describe and critique the traditional education
system? The name refers to the metaphor of students as containers into which
educators must put knowledge. This reinforces a lack of critical thinking and
knowledge ownership in students, which in turn reinforces oppression, as well
as it misrepresents Freire's understanding of knowledge as the result of a
human, creative process
REFLECTION:
mmmmm The
“banking
concept,”
as as termed by Freire, is essentially an act that hinders
The
“banking
concept,”
by Freire,
is of students by turning them into, figuratively speaking,
the termed
intellectual
growth
essentially “receptors”
an act that and “collectors” of information that have no real
comatose
hinders the to intellectual
connection
their lives.
growth of students by
turning them into,
figuratively speaking,
comatose “receptors”
and “collectors” of
information that have
no real connection to
their lives.
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