Thursday, November 14, 2013

The Incredible Converstion Video & "The Banking Concept of Education"

In the "The Banking Concept of Education" by Paolo Freire, he describes the importance of teachers encouraging students to explore different questions or curiosities that they might have. The idea of not teaching robotically and allowing the room for conformity of your teaching methods. In the video "An Incredible Conversation" Paolo Freire underlines the everlasting curiosity of human nature that he all have. He describes his own curiosity, and how as an old man of 75 he is still just as curious as when he was a boy. It is the 'job' of the students to be curious, it is their right. "In changing I did not change nevertheless" ....."some of the central nucleus of my thought stayed the same", in this he describes, using himself as an example in how teachers can go different directions with learning, by experimenting with methods, but still stay in the main track when working towards their goal. He mentions as well the importance of critical thinking among both teachers and students. This related to our reading, because he describes the entwined relationship between student and teacher, and how instead of the teacher being the main 'subject' the student, and teacher are the main subject of learning.

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