The themes of "consciousness and community" are complex when you think of the multiple meanings and what they are comprised of. In Merriam-Webster dictionary both these words have multiple meanings; For example, the word consciousness defines the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition. (1) Also it mean, the state or fact of being conscious of an external object, state, or fact.(2) First, I would like to elaborate the meaning of community in relation to this class. Community is a group of people who share common ground, it can be the area where they live as in IMAGE MAKING IN ARCTIC ART by Edmund Carpenter or it can be a language like in Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan. Richard Rodriguez's The Achievement of Desire, he says something
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They are also the main reason that I am the way I am today, without their support and advice I would be down a completely different road in life. "More acute was her complaint that the family wasn't close anymore, like some others she knew. Why weren't we close, "more in the Mexican style"? Everyone is so private, she added. And she mimicked the yes and no answers she got in reply to her questions. Why didn't we talk more? (My father never asked.) I never said.(5)" this quote from Rodriguez's mother is a very scary line to me, I do come from a Mexican background so I understand what she means by Mexican style, and the thought of my family drifting apart is truly frightening to me. We talk about our troubles, give advice, and poke fun at each other, this closeness allows us to have a place to be comfortable and to lose that would be devastating to me, and I assume that it would devastate the rest of my family …show more content…
people enter and leave all the time, they get separated and come back, and they get exposed to other communities. But this community is very powerful, In the second chapter of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, I think that he is trying to say that education is a tool that can stop oppression or create it. Freire calls out the flaws in the mainstream way of education, he refers to it as "the Banking Concept"; the reason he does this is that he ties it the acted of depositing money into a bank. In this way of teaching, the author argues, that it takes the humanity out of learning and ascertains that the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing. From my experience, the Backing concept, is very rigged, it assumes that all students learn the same way and at the same pace; Freire touches on all the people that have been left behind in this statement: "To achieve this end, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in conjunction with a paternalistic social action apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of "welfare recipients." They are treated as individual cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a "good, organized, and just" society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must, therefore, adjust these "incompetent and lazy" folk to its own patterns by changing
They are also the main reason that I am the way I am today, without their support and advice I would be down a completely different road in life. "More acute was her complaint that the family wasn't close anymore, like some others she knew. Why weren't we close, "more in the Mexican style"? Everyone is so private, she added. And she mimicked the yes and no answers she got in reply to her questions. Why didn't we talk more? (My father never asked.) I never said.(5)" this quote from Rodriguez's mother is a very scary line to me, I do come from a Mexican background so I understand what she means by Mexican style, and the thought of my family drifting apart is truly frightening to me. We talk about our troubles, give advice, and poke fun at each other, this closeness allows us to have a place to be comfortable and to lose that would be devastating to me, and I assume that it would devastate the rest of my family …show more content…
people enter and leave all the time, they get separated and come back, and they get exposed to other communities. But this community is very powerful, In the second chapter of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, I think that he is trying to say that education is a tool that can stop oppression or create it. Freire calls out the flaws in the mainstream way of education, he refers to it as "the Banking Concept"; the reason he does this is that he ties it the acted of depositing money into a bank. In this way of teaching, the author argues, that it takes the humanity out of learning and ascertains that the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing. From my experience, the Backing concept, is very rigged, it assumes that all students learn the same way and at the same pace; Freire touches on all the people that have been left behind in this statement: "To achieve this end, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in conjunction with a paternalistic social action apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of "welfare recipients." They are treated as individual cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a "good, organized, and just" society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must, therefore, adjust these "incompetent and lazy" folk to its own patterns by changing