Problem Posing

Freire was a proponent of the problem-posing method of teaching. This method relies on one 's metacognitive awareness. It is important for the student to know where they are in their understanding of the material. Further, this method of teaching encourages self-reflection in that a student thinks of how they are thinking. The problem-posing method encourages critical thinking whereas the banking concept does not.

People begin their education from day one till the day they die. Therefore, every day, we always learn new things in different ways such as education, news, magazine, internet, etc. An ideologist, Paulo Freire, in his narrative essay, “The Banking Concept of Education,” present the modern concept of and approaches to education. Freire’s purpose is to compare the two educational systems, the “banking concept” and the “problem-posing concept”. Throughout his essay, he argues strongly to support his creative own and make his readers believe that problem-posing education is more efficient than the banking education.

Throughout the introduction of Clueless in Academe by Gerald Graff, Graff explores the idea that schools are obscuring students from their lively minds. Education has always had a purpose to serve their students, however, since there is an obvious miscommunication taking place in our schools the purpose needs to be advanced upon. Furthermore, when intellectuals such as teachers have an argumentative discussion, the words they use make their discussion unavailable to those that are listening, specifically students, which again, disrupt students from their minds. These ideas not only relate within all institutions, but also play a large role in research and how repetition, as well as not understanding

In Paulo Freire’s “Banking Concept of Education”, he explains his view of the educational system, and the faults within it. Freire describes the educational system as being “banking education”, which he explains to be the wrong method, and proposes a new method of “problem-posing” education which he believes to be more effective and just.

To solve the problem plaguing the education system, Freire offers a solution which involves a “problem-posing education”. In this system the roles of teachers and students become mixed and left more open to interpretation. Both the teacher and student actively participate in effective communication to gain an understanding of the information being taught instead of just memorization. According to Freire, “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient,

Freire feels that the students should not be passive and that they should always be actively learning but also always helping others learn as well. He also thinks that students should be able to voice their opinions when learning and also be able to challenge others knowledge and not just accept and repeat the facts that are being told to them. Additionally, Freire thinks that all learning should be active. Active learning is a big element to truly learning. If you are not actively having a dialog and learning from each other, you are using the “banking concept of learning,” only receiving information and not challenging the knowledge. “In problem-posing education people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves,” the problem-posing model is used to help students think more critically and in-depth about what they are learning. The problem-posing education model “regards dialog as indispensable to the act of cognition which unveils reality.” Freire wants the students to be able to form their own opinions and thoughts on subjects, not just repeat what was told to them about the topic. Freire’s goal with the problem-posing concept is to get students to actively and critically think about what they are learning and why they are learning about it. “the teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thoughts on them,” this is why students need to be actively thinking, they need to form their own opinions to truly

In the excerpt from “The Banking Concept of Education” the author, Paulo Freire explains the critical flaw in the current education system. He continues by offering his believed solution to this problem. The two concepts Freire discusses in this excerpt are the “banking concept” of education and the “problem-posing method” of education. The “banking concept” is talked about rather negatively, whereas the “problem-posing method” is talked about highly. Freire believes in the “problem-posing method” and that students should have free-will to a certain extent in the classroom with less authoritative power from the teacher during discussions.

In Paulo Freire’s article, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” he discusses how there is an absence of imagination and critical thinking in the “banking” method of education. Paulo Freire contends that the “banking” method of instruction is not a viable strategy to educate students. In the film, Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, Mr. Keating, an English professor in the film, liberates the student 's mind by making them confront the issues exhibited to them. The "problem-posing" strategy was utilized as a part of the film, yet since the students’ were used to the "banking" method, they did not know how to face the issue, rather they found another approach to dispose of it. “Problem-posing” method demonstrates that the "banking" method is by no means the only type of instruction out there. Weir’s film and Freire’s article demonstrate how well a teacher-student relationship can be when using the “problem-posing” method and the“banking” method, in other to understand Freire’s explicit and implicit message.

“Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling the same bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on a different kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact…but it needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed to seeing.”

Paolo Freire thinks, “Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection”. (Page 31). I think education should provide a link for the students to analyse and develop their personal experiences and help them to view these under a new light. Education needs to be a “liberating” process by which the learner develops a critical analysis to learning. I believe in a constructivist educational approach that leads the student to research about the subject to “hit the problem” first. We then discuss it in the classroom so that when the solution is understood it is valuable and meaningful. I would like my teaching to lead the students to think for themselves so they develop and acknowledge the analytic process. The techniques explained in class should be supported by the student’s own researches. With the emergence of the World Wide Web and mostly online tutorial videos, it is vital that my learners

Freire strongly disagrees with the “banking” concept of learning and he believes that it should not be used for education. Instead, he believes that the “problem posing” concept will let the students become a

The greatest thing about humans is that they have the ability to think. Thinking is what differs people from each other and makes people who they are. Freire understands the importance of thinking and wants to start a discussion on the school systems attempt to restrict thinking. This is what he tries to do in his article, something that he does pretty well. He believes the school system solely cares about facts and numbers. The teachers feed their students information and expect them to memorize it, and spit it back on paper. “The reason the banking system continues to thrive is to serve the purpose of the authority, whose peace of mind rests on how well the oppressed fit in the world created by the oppressors, and how little they question it (Freire, page 219). Educators have to understand that the classroom is a leveled playing field, teaching and learning simultaneously through discussions with each other.

memorize. The other concept of education Freire talks about is the problem posing, which he

I strongly agree with the Freire views on problem-posing. Problem-posing is the best way to go about teaching students. The students have the opportunity to express themselves through communication. By expressing themselves, they are vulnerable to learning and experiencing the benefits of problem-posing. Students become interactive with the teachers who are positioned to promote a comfortable environment. This assists in creating friendships. With problem-posing, men and women are able to experience freedom and success. As a mentor for the incoming freshmen in high school, I created an atmosphere that allowed the freshmen to feel comfortable enough to be confident in who they were.

Today’s education is largely based on memorization and conforming students to not have their own thoughts. However in Michel de Montaigne’s ideas On the Education of Children, he critiques the way the education system is today. Montaigne argues that children should apply their education to their own life, rather than memorization and reciting the information. Montaigne’s ideal of education of children guides today’s education at all two levels by using his idea of application rather than memorization and educate without anger or force.