The discussion below explores Paulo Freire’s philosophy on emancipatory learning or education whereby by he uses the term ‘banking education’ to describe the social representation of oppression and develops an emancipatory ‘problem-posing’ education in the form of conscientization projects related to social transformation. In this text the key words are emancipated and empowered. Emancipate means to liberate or free someone or something and to empower to allow someone or enable them to do what they
How do teachers attempt to control the way you understand the world? Paulo Freire, author of “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, declares that “Narration (with the teacher as the narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into ‘containers,’ into ‘receptacles’ to be ‘filled’ by the teacher” (216). Freire’s statement implies that teaching utilizing the banking concept shifts the role of students as learners to robots who receive data and execute