The Living Dead A necrophiliac has an affinity for the dead. When Freire refers to the oppressive power of the banking education system as being “necrophilic”, he was referring to the pleasure of the oppressor over a powerless and therefore lifeless being. In this essay I will delve into the concept of banking education and its flaws as described in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and its applications to contemporary education. First, I will explain banking education.
Banking education is a form of schooling that involves one teacher giving a class information based on previous training and experiences that one teacher had (Freire 71). The setup of the classroom usually involves the one teacher standing at the front of the room and students all faced towards that teacher, sitting silently unless called on.This is, as Friere calls it, the banking concept of education -- the scope of action allowed to the students is listening and storing information. The students have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the information and experiences they store. This information, according to Freire, is …show more content…
However, Freire argues that there is a solution to this problem: problem posing education. Problem posing education opens up the lines of communication between the students as well as the teacher and allows a connection of the materials to their life conditions. In my life, banking education caused fear of speaking up and standing up for myself inside and outside the classroom. However, this fear is quickly turned around in a problem posing education style, where I can speak with confidence about the topics at hand by mixing previous life experiences with the subject matter. It is clear that Paulo Freire and I share a similar classroom phobia -- a fear of the living
Banking education is a form of schooling that involves one teacher giving a class information based on previous training and experiences that one teacher had (Freire 71). The setup of the classroom usually involves the one teacher standing at the front of the room and students all faced towards that teacher, sitting silently unless called on.This is, as Friere calls it, the banking concept of education -- the scope of action allowed to the students is listening and storing information. The students have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the information and experiences they store. This information, according to Freire, is …show more content…
However, Freire argues that there is a solution to this problem: problem posing education. Problem posing education opens up the lines of communication between the students as well as the teacher and allows a connection of the materials to their life conditions. In my life, banking education caused fear of speaking up and standing up for myself inside and outside the classroom. However, this fear is quickly turned around in a problem posing education style, where I can speak with confidence about the topics at hand by mixing previous life experiences with the subject matter. It is clear that Paulo Freire and I share a similar classroom phobia -- a fear of the living