Problem-Posing Education: Enhancing Teacher-Student Relationships

The problem-posing style of education is used on a day to day basis by teachers who enjoy projecting their ideas to students. For example, when the whole classroom has achieved a grade of an A- or higher, one may infer the answers were obtained willingly rather than forcibly. The student must show a want of the knowledge to receive information in a way that sticks with them, without force. This style of education shows how the teacher and student relationship is both positive and beneficial. This could be where the teacher rejoices from good grades while the student is confident because of the good grades that they have earned. The problem-posing concept may even be associated with an authentic relationship between the student and the teacher.

In Forensics, we learned about everyday crimes ranging from petite larceny to homicide. Although many of us had not experienced these crimes first hand, some other students may have connected on another level that I had not known about. Another reason for every bodies good grades may have been the knowledge of the hurt the victim’s families could go through after those horrific crimes. “Students that are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge.” (Freire, 222) Ms. Innes was always looking for ways to get inside the student’s mind, learning how they could absorb the information easily and with interest. A way she did this was by finding cases that pertained to the lesson learned that day. These cases were brought forth from internet stories or much of the time from a television show known as Forensic Files. By keeping us interested and in a way that we may be able to connect to it on a personal level kept the class on their