Week8- Freire

In Chapter 2 of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the author addresses what he terms as the “banking concept” of education (1970, p. 72). This concept is familiar to anyone who partook in a standardized education system. Essentially, the banking concept of education suggests that a teacher deposits material into students, who essentially become containers for information (Freire, 1970, p. 72). Engagement in critical thought is not accepted in this system of education, which Freire suggests is a form of oppression that effectively silences students (Freire, 1970, p. 72). Freire…