Essay On Teacher Culture

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While some people consider the student and teacher culture to be effectively educating students, Edmundson and Freire reveal that a closer consideration of this relationship indicate several flaws and missed opportunities for the students. “A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration sickness.” (Freire, 1993. para. 1) Instead of teachers presenting the material in a way for the students to relate it to the “real world”, the words seem detached, alien, and motionless; leaving the students to be receptacles that the teacher “fills”. Students aren’t taught to think for themselves. Interestingly enough, Freire (1993) states that, “The more completely he fills the receptacles, the better a teacher he is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.” (Freire, 1993. para. 4). …show more content…

Because that’s what works.” (as cited in Edmundson para. 7-8, Greene, Lidinsky, p. 391) Edmundson declares that he and his students reap the rewards of conformity and compliance with the culture of the university. However, one must wonder, what are the students and teachers missing out on by conforming to the present culture? Would they learn more and get more out of each lesson by changing this culture? Surely they

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