Problem Posing Education Essay

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Danny Tran
English 114-36
Emma Rogers
27th September 2015
Assignment 2: Freire (Rough Draft) In today’s educational classrooms, there are many different ways a teacher and their students communicate and connect in the learning environment. The way the students and teachers interact with one another plays a big role in how a student is demonstrating their apprehension as well as what they are learning. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire discusses different methods of teaching and learning between the student and teacher, such as the “banking” concept of education and the problem-posing model. According to Freire, the banking model of education is where the teachers act as the “depositors,” storing information into the students as …show more content…

(248) In my past years of education, especially high school, I feel as if the problem-posing concept is more widely used by the teachers I had in my classes. I had no feelings of oppression, where I felt free enough to communicate with my peers and ask questions if any came to my thinking. As Freire says, this concept holds the ethics to communicating with one another. With this concept, I felt as if there was no distance between my teachers and me, enabling freedom in questioning and voicing my thoughts and …show more content…

Although there was not much homework assigned throughout the year, there were many class assignments and lab days where we had to work in groups of four in order to complete our tasks. There was no note taking, students were given an assignment sheet that has all the key information you needed in order to complete the assignment. All students had the ability to collaborate with their group members in order to answer questions and proceed with the tasks in the lab, not to mention if we were incapable of answering a question or unsure of a step, we also had the option to communicate with our teacher whenever we wanted to have assistance. But before we asked questions, the ability to communicate with your peers enabled us to critically think about the question, thus leading to improvements in our problem solving as a

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