Our Tuesday assignment is to read, re-read, and re-read again the work of author Paulo Freire. We were asked not only to read The "Banking Concept" of Education, but to rewrite our reading. Dr. Mangini asked us to print out and mark up our pages. He asked us to think on paper, to get our ideas down so we don't lose them. Then to write not only about what the banking concept of education actually is, not only what the contrast of problem-posing is, but also how we have seen one or both of them in our education. The banking concept of education goes as far out of its way as it can to make sure students are not being creative thinkers; it tries to give as much information to students as possible in as little time as possible. Paulo Freire gave us these traits of the banking concept of education: a. the teacher teaches and the students are taught; b. the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing; c. the teacher thinks and the students are thought about; d. the teacher talks and the students listen -- meekly; e. the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined; f. the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply; g. the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher; h. the teacher chooses his program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it; i. the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students; j.the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the students are mere objects. Problem-posing methods seem to be much more hands-on, try it out for yourself, it seems to ask questions relating to our world and our lives. It seems to show the student how this information could relate to them, and thus why the should understand the material. It tries to relate more to your personal non-school life, which is using association, so if a student runs into a real life problem similar to one they used in class, they will think of it shortly thereafter the problem arises. It turns them into critical thinkers. In my own personal education, I noticed my mom mainly used traits a, c, d, e, f, and h of the banking concept of education. I also noticed a lot of the problem-posing methods in my education as well, she seemed to do a great job of using about half and half. I can also see how different times, different circumstances, called for different methods to be used. There were some days where we would have to leave the house, or we would be on a tight schedule so the banking method of education worked best to help me learn the material quickly, other times we had lazy days where we could cuddle up on the couch with a textbook, or lay on the floor with a white board and do random math problems, practice taking notes or doodle/scribble while mom read to me, giving my hands something to do. Every thing we did was a learning opportunity, she made up a game called pass, we had to answer a random question (now we know they were quiz questions) and try our hardest to get the right answer, if we didn't know, we would pass it along to the next player and see if they could get it. The entire game was more of just bragging rights, we never won any prizes, except for grades she put on papers without us knowing our favorite game was actually a test. We somehow managed to stay pretty well balanced, it think it's part of what helped me to retain as much information as I have.
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This is a free write. A free write is basically when I slide my notes away, keep my hands off the keyboard, and record whatever thoughts come to my mind before actually taking care of my assignment. You do this for a specific predetermined amount of time, for me it was ten minutes. This is my free write for our assignment the banking concept of education which will be posted shortly. Here are my unedited thoughts and notes:
Ok...what to write? *Gets bopped really hard on nose by little brother trying to give goodnight kiss* Banking concept of education... What should I categorize this as? What time is it? Pay Attention! So...I guess my mom kind of used the banking concept of education with me; I believe she used like half. I was kind of taught what she picked with no thought to it, yet she tried to let me pick, it just never worked out. Besides. I got to pick a class a semester, so I got to learn what I wanted. Then again, I picked from pre-selected courses. Then again, the pre-selected courses weren't her choices anyway; they were selected by the mom's at the home school co-op. Shouldn't I post that troubleshooting blog for the fonts? How does what my mom did with me compare with my classmates who've actually been to a classroom before? |
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