`Paulo Freire` The Banking Concept of Education

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17 November 2007

Paulo Freire The Banking Concept of Education

Introduction

The Banking Concept of Education ' was invented by Paulo Freire in an attempt to describe the implications of the contemporary educational system . Much criticism has been addressed towards this work much truth the work has also revealed . It is difficult to argue , whether the author was but can also be debated . However , it is still interesting and useful to review Freire 's arguments as for what banking education is

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Banking concept of education

The essence of the banking concept of education created by Freire is in the fact that students do not acquire and use knowledge to analyze the knowledge instead is simply deposited into them by the teacher . This process if viewed by Freire as the means of hindering creativity in education in general . This is the banking concept of education , in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving , filing , and storing the deposits (Freire . Of course , one may argue that we ourselves are the creators of our education , and our knowledge . However , initiative in education is not always applicable especially when the educational environment does not allow any creativity , as Freire tries to persuade us . Thus , the author of the banking concept in education tries to prove that ultimately , students cannot transform the deposited knowledge , as they are not taught to apply their transformational skills

In the banking concept of education , knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing (Freire . As a consequence , Freire speaks about banking ' teachers as oppressors , referring to the present educational system as oppressing . The knowledge has always been the process of inquiry , but the banking approaches in education change these ideas , and make education similar to the oppressing ideologies : the teacher represents himself as opposed to his students , and they do not have any choice to change this or to escape this opposition . In the banking concept of education , students have to take their teachers for granted , and as people who know everything , while the students know nothing (Freire . The major contradiction of the banking education Freire depicts in the list of ten attitudes and practices of conventional education

We have already mentioned the two of these attitudes , when the knowledge is merely deposited into students , and when they are accepted by teachers as knowing nothing . Freire assumes that in his approach towards education , the teacher thinks and the students are thought about (Freire . However , it is difficult to understand here , in what way the students are being thought of and how it relates to the discussed theoretical framework . Does this mean that the students are thought about as merely the depositaries of knowledge ? This assumption can be correct in the light of the already discussed issues . The teacher talks and the students listen - meekly the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined (Freire . Obviously...