Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Banking concept of Education
In Paolo Friere's "Banking Concept of Education", he says that education is suffering from "narration sickness". Friere lists the the number one result of narration sickness is the memorization of things vesus fully absorbing them into your knowledge. I found this part very interesting because in my currins class we are learning how to avoid teaching this way. In order to have your students fully learn and understand something you have to engage them by relating the lesson to them. This goes againsit the list of how a teacher and student should interact on page 75 of "The Banking Concept of Education." The list includes; "the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing." This is a terrible concept and wont let the student learn a thing. Students feel comfortable learning when they know the teacher is learning as well.
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I think another dimension of the "narration" problem is that teachers have all of the power in the classroom -- and students have no power.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your stance on teacher/student relationships. I think that in order to be a good teacher, you have to relate to students becasue are constantly learning too. putting yourself on a the level of a learner will build a trusting more meaningful scholastic relationship.
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