Banking Banking Education“Banking Education”

Two Kinds of

Education

ListenLecture

Facilitate thinking, speaking and acting (mobilize individual resources)

Liberation

Social Change

Domestication

Status Quo

BCottrell

Nobody Knows EverythingEverybody Knows

Something

Teacher Knows AllStudent Knows Nothing

PauloFreire (1921-1997)

Paulo Freire: The ManPaulo Freire: The Man

• Brazilian adult educator

• Literacy campaign

• 1964=Exiled to Chile

• 1972=Fled Chile when Allende fell

• Harvard, World Council of Churches

• 1979=Return to Brazil as Minister of Education

• 1997=Deceased

Paulo Freire: 5 AspectsPaulo Freire: 5 Aspects

• Dialogue

• Praxis

• Conscientization

• The Lived Experience

• Christian metaphors

PRAXISPRAXIS

• Ongoing interaction between reflection and action to promote individual and social change

Generative ThemesGenerative Themes

• Issues around which people have strong feelings that move them through apathy to action

CODESCODES

• Familiar issues portrayed to people in concrete forms that present a problem but do not give an answer

CODESCODES• Stories• Pictures• Skits• Poems• Songs• Quotes• Proverbs• Data

INFORMATIONINFORMATION

REFLECTIONREFLECTION

INTERPRETATIONINTERPRETATION

DECISIONDECISION

Senses Data

Feelings Experience

Meaning Insights

Actions Strategies

The Dialogue Process

The Freirian Process

Listen for strong feelings

Portray situation causing strong feelings in stories or pictures

Facilitate

Input

Assessment Reflection

DecisionAction