English 200 Tuesday, 3-10-15 through Friday, 3-13-15 Tuesday, 3-10-15 In your notebook, write about...

English 200Tuesday, 3-10-15 through Friday, 3-13-15

Tuesday, 3-10-15In your notebook, write about the following quote:

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

--George Washington Carver


Wednesday, 3-11-15In your notebook, write about the following quote:

“A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young

persons to go in search of their own.”

- Maxine Greene


Thursday, 3-12-15In your notebook, write about the following quote:

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”

--Alec Bourne


Friday, 3-13-15In your notebook, write about the following quote:

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”

--Conrad Hall


Tuesday 3-10-14

Active Reading Day – Use the active reading handout

“The Banking Concept of Education,” by Paulo Freire, pp. 62-67


Wednesday 4-16-14

Reading Quiz

Discuss “The Banking Concept of Education”


Wednesday 4-16-14

Reading Quiz

1. What must teachers surrender and students develop in order for education to be effective?

2. How does Freire define the ideal teacher/student relationship?3. According to Freire, what is the banking concept of education?4. According to Freire, what place does inquiry hold in the banking concept of education?5. Freire speaks about teachers and students becoming “jointly responsible.” Explain what he means by this.


Wednesday 3-11-15

In 6 groups, do the following:

1)Summarize the paragraph2) Identify the most important sentence/quote

3) State basic education truth


Group 1: p. 63, “A careful analysis…” through “means for Brazil”Group 2: p. 63, “Education thus becomes…” through “they educate

the teacher.”Group 3: p. 64, “The raison d’être…” through “proscribes

communication”Group 4: p. 64, “Yet only through…” through “in the name of

liberation.”Group 5: p. 65, “Liberating education…” through “owned by the

teacher.”Group 6: p. 62, “Freire’s education theory…” through “no real

knowledge is created.”


Wednesday 3-11-15 and Friday 3-13-15

Discuss “The Banking Concept in Education”

Author Comparison/Contrast Chart


Thursday, 3-12-15 – Meet in the Library

Precis – a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts.

Should include: 1. A description of the context of

the article2. Who the author is and why he is

important3. A summary of the article (at least

five sentences)

Who is the author of the text?What was the work’s original

purpose?What cultural factors might

have influenced the work?What are some of the author’s

major concerns?What larger conversation is

this text a part of?What are the primary points

the authors makes in the writing?



The Narrative Nature of Schooling

Teacher StudentsContent



The Narrative Nature of Schooling

“The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified”

(63)

Teacher StudentsContent



Narration Sickness

or

Dialectic - discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation

Teacher Students



“Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into ‘containers,’ into ‘receptacles’ to be ‘filled’ by the teacher. The more completely she fills

the receptacles, the better teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled,

the better students they are” (63).



The Banking Concept of Education leads to “narration Sickness”

Teacher Students

The depositing of knowledge/skill into empty

receptacles



“The raison d’etre of liberation education, on the other hand, lies in its drive towards reconciliation.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the

poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students” (64).



Liberation Education

“The teacher’s thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students’ thinking. The teacher cannot think for her students, nor

can she impose her thought on them” (64-65)

Teacher Students



What do you like about Freire’s ideas about education?

List 5 positive characteristics of Liberation Education



What might be the problems with Freire’s ideas about education?

List 5 problems with Liberation Education



Connect Freire with previous authors:Comparison / Contrast

Seneca, Wollstonecraft, Primer, Douglass, Al-Ghazali, Newman

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