notes from freire

i can't promise these are any good


notes on pedagogy of the oppressed
paulo freire

20% of class have heard of him

like moffett very influential in theory

this text used billions of times since first printing in 1970

global student revolution

bellwether text for pedagogical theories of the time

BANKING CONCEPT OF EDUCATION - page 72
his most famous idea
the information you give to a student and the way that they are supposed to just take it in

depositing information because the children aren't supposed to do anything with the information other than recieve the information

deposit the coin of knowledge into the students head

page 72

is the banking concept he wrote about in 1970 still in play today?
- yes: taking place
- no: dina: most kids are encouraged to interact, more interaction, on a more even keel with faculty and teachers
since 70s this has changes (some?)
- yes: in college. students sit in lectures, required to repeat what they've learned during exams. dina: lecture hall: big class, no interaction, math, chemistry
possible critique of freire: he's not talking about science or math, banking can be necessary for fact based
 - balance needed.
- he was talking about what students should be able to do when they graduate college

for freire the point of an education is to be a complete human
 - to be able to think critically and individually
 - page 75
"They may discover through existential experience that their present way of life is irreconcilable with their vocation to become fully human."

as he sees it our job as teachers is to teach people to be human beings.

This is what makes Freire a Marxist: his idea that the worker's job is to find solidarity with others and overthrow reality

The point of education is to change students from people who are going to go out and be in the world into people who are going to go out and change the world.

the job of the educator and the student is to discover what needs to be changed about reality and do waht is required to make those changes

"engage themselves in the struggle for their liberation"

would you ever use freire's language, use the word liberation, into your own personal pedagogical creed?