Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
Avila
Paulo Freire
• Experienced the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s at just the age of 10.
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Aims of Education
• Education is a tool for liberation.
• Education is a political act.
• Education is communion between participants.
• Education is not a set commodity.
• Learning begins with action.
• Students shouldn’t be viewed as empty accounts.
• Education is a phenomenon in which educators and educatee,
educate each other.
• Education is a critical understanding of reality.
• The method of education must start from the life situation and
reality.
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Banking System
• a term used by Freire to describe the
current situation of the education
Teacher
system
• students become depositories and
teachers the depositor
• oppressive in nature students
• students are not encouraged
1. The teacher teaches while the students are taught.
2. The teacher knows everything while the students are
ignorant.
3. The teacher thinks while the students are thought about.
Characteristics 4. The teacher narrates and the students listen.
5. The teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined.
6. The teacher chooses and the students comply.
7. The teacher acts and the students observe.
8. The teacher sets the curriculum and the students adapt to it.
9. The teacher claims authority to oppress the students.
10. The teacher is the subject while the students are objects.
Critical Pedagogy
• an educational approach that teaches students critical awareness
(conscientização)
• conscientização is often described as the process of becoming aware of
social and political contradictions and then to act against the oppressive
elements of our sociopolitical conditions. (Diaz, 2014)
• utilizes dialogue between the teacher and the student
Teacher students
• Enhances the learner's critical awareness.
• This methodology is problem-based.
• Builds a fair and egalitarian society
• Instead of one-way knowledge transfer, the emphasis is on
Characteristics dialogue.
• Education that is fair and equal.
• Encourages independence and intellectual development.
Problem-Posing System of Education
as a Critical Pedagogy
Problem-posing System
• an alternative to the banking education system
• both students and teachers discuss and analyze a problem in a situation, and
solve it after the discussion.
Teacher students
• The strategy of posing problems encourages
learners to think critically.
• The process of problem-posing encourages pupils to