Paulo Freire

Much like Paulo In the article “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Paulo Freire expresses how much he dislikes the way students are taught. He explains how students pay all this money to listen to a Professor in a large auditorium discuss different topics to 300-400 students taking notes. He believes this is not the right ways to be taught not only is it a good way for information to go in one ear and out the other. Paulo proposes students and teacher to use the “banking…

“This teacher doesn’t even know how to teach! He just gives us questions and…” The rest of that sentence isn’t too pleasant as the student sitting next to me uttered a lot of profanities to express his feelings. During my observation I sat in on a year 10 Mathematics classroom where the teacher was not what you would consider to be a “good” teacher. Using The NSW Quality Teaching Framework as a model, the pedagogy that this Mathematics teacher demonstrated was not up to standard. The…

social practice to which he was abject was wrong. In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass tells of his realization of the possibility for change. It was this comprehension of his position in social context that was a prerequisite for Douglass’ literacy. Freire notes that literacy is not memorizing words but perceiving the world more deeply. Unfortunately, Douglass’ outlook was not very common, as students at Tuskegee Institute were often only interested in learning long words and books. As…

professors, who are more defined as narrative objects and students are described as listening objects according to Freire. Teamwork is an essential key in any form of field or education. Teamwork…

About Henry Giroux: Henry Giroux is a well known critical pedagogy scholar, in 2014 he was the holder of the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department. Giroux was born on the 18th of September in 1943 and received his doctorate degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977. He is widely known for writing and researching about pedagogy, youth studies, media studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and higher education.…

Over the years, Trump has developed a record of being sexist towards women. He oppresses women by making vulgar comments and calling them names like “disgusting” and “unattractive.” The reason for Trump’s behavior is uncalled for and is very unethical, but nobody can understand where his hatred and anger towards women originated from. According to the article “Self” by Nina Bahadur, who is also the author of the book “Every Single One”, and a writer and editor based in New York City, she…

Paulo Freire once said: “Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors. Which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed.” During the holocaust, the Jews, and anyone in the camps, were forced to do hard labor without any breaks, without being fed hardly any food, and in terrible conditions. They were abused, maltreated, downtrodden etc.. by the natzis, kapos, and the S.S officers. There were…

“Edwardsville High School is the premier high school in the state of Illinois” was blasted through the intercom everyday, but it never felt that way. The premier high school means that students get the best education and come out as critical thinkers and ready for college, while Edwardsville High School did have an impressive record a lot of it was due to their method of teaching, namely, “banking” for their required classes. Sadly, these required classes were rushed and intentionally easy to…

My Philosophy of Education My philosophy of education was not formed over years and years of profound, philosophical reflection but rather while sipping coffee, sitting in a rocking chair, and mulling over books as I watched the summer sun set behind the Blue Ridge Mountains. From Socrates to Joan Wink, the past four months have been spent vigilantly examining and growing from the philosophies of others. The tables have finally turned, and now without further adieu, it is my turn to share my…

Increasing access to quality education, including the marginalized would lead to development, reduces poverty, improve the wellbeing, and freedom of people. Constantly, denied quality education access for the marginalized children, according to Stark (2009), compels them to a limited life span. Children from poor families suffer from poor health, malnutrition, school uncertainties, dirty water, and poor sanitation, and above all, they are exposed to illness, exploitation, injustice, abuse,…