Analysis: Education Is Sick And In The Process Of Healing

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Education is Sick and in the Process of Healing Many have the belief that in order to know where to go, there needs to be an understanding of where one has been, hence the idea of “Tradition”. The education system that society has become accustomed to having, follows the idea that the teacher reflects how he/she was taught and uses the same process to mold his/her students. In the article “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, (1970), Paulo Freire describes the traditional teaching and names it the “banking-education” system. Freire states that the students have no creativity, they are expected to absorb information, memorize and satisfactorily test to be considered knowledgeable. The 1989 film directed by Peter Weir, “Dead Poets Society”, …show more content…

Freire presents “problem-posing” system as an ever changing reality, facing challenges as interrelated to other problems expanding on critical thinking. In the film Todd Anderson’s character is portrayed as a shy nervous student. Keating taunts and pushes the young man to describe what he sees and feels when looking at a portrait of the poet Walter Whitman. Anderson creates this emotional poetic expression that starts from something he related to down in his soul, a fight with a blanket that is never quite big enough to cover and hide you. In the article “Cultural and Political Vignettes in the English Classroom: Problem- Posing, Problem-Solving, and the Imagination”, Jacqueline Darvin writes about a 7th grade classroom in East Meadow, New York middle. The students are asked to respond, imagining being in a difficult social situation and carefully considering their roles in the school community. One of the series had to do with bullying, the students not only respond including words, but actions as well. Darvin captures the following quote from Maxine Greene, in her classic Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change, writes , "It may be the recovery of imagination that lessens the social paralysis we see around us and restores the sense that something can be done in the name of what is decent and humane.” Only by giving students the opportunity to practice thinking and planning how one might respond to an uncomfortable situation brings one to actually respond and interact, instead of ignoring and not getting

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