The banking model of education is a term coined by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire to describe and critique the education system established in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The name refers to Freire's metaphor of students as containers into which educators must deposit knowledge, and Freire argued that this model reinforces a lack of critical thinking and knowledge ownership among students, which in turn reinforces oppression, in contrast to his own understanding of knowledge as the result of a human, creative process.
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Core ClaimThe banking model of education describes and critiques a mode of teaching in which the teacher deposits knowledge into passive students who receive, memorize and repeat it, rather than treating students as active participants in creating their own knowledge. 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Banking Model of Education
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is a term coined by Paulo Freire to describe and critique the established education system in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Wikipedia: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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written in Portuguese between 1967 and 1968, but first published in Spanish in 1968
Anti-oppressive education (Wikipedia)
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This is the banking model of education, in which the scope of action allowed by the students extends only as far as receiving, filling and storing the deposits.
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