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- Vol 4 RE: Chapter 20, App C
banking modelproblem-posing educationcritical consciousnessdialogical participationpraxispower relationshumanisationanti-colonial pedagogyBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Freire analyses education as a political relationship that can reproduce domination or support humanisation and liberation. He criticises the “banking” model, in which teachers deposit authorised knowledge into passive students, because it separates knowing from learners’ lived reality and preserves unequal power.
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In problem-posing education, teachers and learners become dialogical participants who investigate meaningful conditions, name contradictions, and develop critical consciousness through reflection joined with action, or praxis. Dialogue is not an unstructured conversation or the teacher’s withdrawal; it requires humility, trust, hope, disciplined inquiry, and commitment to changing dehumanising conditions. Freire also warns that liberation cannot be delivered to oppressed people as another paternalistic gift: people must act as subjects in transforming their world. Written from a revolutionary and anti-colonial context, the book is philosophical rather than a controlled evaluation of classroom methods.
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Applying it responsibly means examining power, voice, curriculum, and participation without turning dialogue into a slogan or neglecting necessary knowledge and teaching.
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