Problem-posing education is a method of teaching developed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and introduced in his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation, and Freire offered it explicitly as an alternative to what he called the banking model of education, in which a teacher simply deposits fixed knowledge into a passive student. In education, problem-posing education stands as the constructive counterpart to Freire's own critique of the banking model: rather than a one-directional transfer of information from teacher to student, it is built around raising and jointly examining real problems drawn from the learner's own life and circumstances.
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Core ClaimProblem-posing education treats teacher and students as joint investigators who build knowledge together through dialogue, replacing the banking model's one-way transfer of information from teacher to student. 1 FAQs
How does problem-posing education differ from the banking model of teaching?
Knowledge is formulated through dialogue between teacher and student instead of being deposited by the teacher.
In the banking model, knowledge is treated as something the teacher deposits into the student. Paulo Freire used problem posing as the alternative. It holds that knowledge is not deposited from teacher to student but is formulated through dialogue between the two. In the classroom, teachers approach students as fellow learners and partners in dialogue, which is meant to create an atmosphere of hope, love, humility and trust.
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Problem-posing education, coined by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is a method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation.
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Problem-posing education solves the student-teacher contradiction by recognizing that knowledge is not deposited from one (the teacher) to another (the student) but is instead formulated through dialogue between the two.
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Problem-posing education, coined by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is a method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation.
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