The Oppressed

answers freshman provide an explanation to spending thousands of dollars on college. But what if education does not give the desired outcome? What if higher education is actually based on being oppressed by an oppressor? Paulo Freire, a Brazilian ideologist, explores this concept in his novel, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The two concepts discussed are the banking system, a system focused on sole memorization of a text, and the problem-posing system, where students and teacher understand knowledge…

In chapter two of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire mentions the banking model of education. He describes the teacher-student relationship as a banking model. A relationship where the teacher is the depositor and the students are the depositories. The teacher deposits information he/she wants to engrave in students and the students as the depositories, receive, memorize, and repeat the information. Freire, mentions that the banking model of education works because teachers make it clear in…

Question 1. In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire (1970), evaluates the concepts of dehumanizations and how it relates to oppression. According to Freire (1970), the act of dehumanization is a distortion that justifies demonizing people making them seem less than human. Freire argues that: Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it is a distortion of the vocation of…

Paulo Freire wrote a book about education, called Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which was first published in 1968. I recently read an excerpt from the book, and I got to learn about Freire’s view of the education, and styles of teaching. In the book he has a lot of great ideas about how teaching and education can be improved. In the first paragraph Freire focuses his attention on co-intentional education. The teachers (leadership) and the students (people), being co-intent on reality.…

how a student performs in a classroom that impacts motivation as a student. For one oppressive education can challenge someone between growth and a set mindset. In Chapter 2, “The Banking Concept of Education”, of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he manifests his view of the education as corrupt. According to him the educational scheme is a “banking system” where he explains to be the wrong approach, and claims that “Problem-Posing education” which he believes in to be more effective…

Author Paulo Freire has a serious opinion and problem with how education is being taught. In Freire’s essay Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he mostly talks about and compares two specific concepts of teaching that he has witnessed. Those concepts are the banking and problem-posing. Sometimes while he explains the difference between the two the author can be a bit confusing and contradictive but for the most part you get the idea the he favors the problem-posing concept. Freire does a good job of…

from a deep love for, and humility before, poor and oppressed people and a respect for their “common sense”, which constitutes knowledge no less important than the scientific knowledge of the professional. The book is originally published in 1968, and its original title is Pedagogia do Oprimido. It was translated by Myra Ramos into English language and was published in 1970. Paulo Freire’s book was titled Pedagogy of the Oppressed because his thesis asserts…

sharing of his knowledge and his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he has transformed the way in which society views the education system. Freire’s goal was to help people of all kind. He started by eradicating illiteracy among people from many different countries (Diaz, n.d.). This was something that was of importance to him and he believed that giving people the power to read and write would go a long way. Additionally, his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed has been influential all across the…

In the reading “Are Men Oppressed?” Kenneth Clatterbaugh addresses the question stated in the title of the reading with three arguments that claim men are indeed oppressed. Of the three arguments I would like to focus on one in particular, that being the expendability argument. When addressed with the argument that men are expendable and therefore they are oppressed; Clatterbaugh objects to every point made in the argument. Clatterbaugh’s solid objection discussed later on makes it clear to me…

of education, students are disconnected from the teacher and the school, so the teachers task is to fill the students with the contents of his/her narration, which students are detached from. The students, whether they are adults or children, are oppressed through their formal relationship with the educator. He expresses that the banking concept of education places students in the passive role, and the educator in the dominant position, leaving the students as a small mark in the system. In…