The Banking Concept Of Education Analysis
4Robyn McKinney
Professor Dr. Cindy Rossi
Eng 106
What does it mean to be educated? Education has become an important part of everyday life as means to teach knowledge and get students for their life after school out in the “Real world”. And yet, a question that has brought a ton of controversy is “what does it mean to be Educated and who decides”. Is it right to claim that today’s education system has been influenced by teachers and a series of hand selected published textbooks.
Today’s education system has been reduced to teachers assume the position of holders of knowledge and who are supposed to then transfers said knowledge to students. Paul Friere (1993) in his article “the banking concept of education” has demonstrated this aspect …show more content…
The system does not give students the opportunity to think or to make their own opinion on any matter. Friere describes the current system of education as one that turns students into adaptors of situations rather than transformers (9). Sometime the information taught by teachers or the textbook are misleading and due to the system the students take in the information as is presented to them without questioning it. Loewen describe the History field as one that has been totally dominated by textbook which most of them are derived from one another and not from primary sources (5). The history books tend to present optimism and overlook failures in the American history. History is written by the victor, and Americans are not always the victor and yet we have a huge variety of history books. So we overlook the fact that we may have failed in …show more content…
An example is Christopher Columbus and the discrepancies in many historical textbooks with the interactions between the Europeans, the European settlers and the Native Americans. Often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about America's commerce in slavery. Loewen continues to criticize the texts for a tendency to avoid controversy and for their non-engaging style. He states that when historical textbooks talk about historical figures to the status of supermen/superwomen, they unintentionally give students the impression that these personas are mythical figures that lived in the past. Another example is the history-as-myth method which teaches students that history’s greatest days are past and do not relate to the current
Professor Dr. Cindy Rossi
Eng 106
What does it mean to be educated? Education has become an important part of everyday life as means to teach knowledge and get students for their life after school out in the “Real world”. And yet, a question that has brought a ton of controversy is “what does it mean to be Educated and who decides”. Is it right to claim that today’s education system has been influenced by teachers and a series of hand selected published textbooks.
Today’s education system has been reduced to teachers assume the position of holders of knowledge and who are supposed to then transfers said knowledge to students. Paul Friere (1993) in his article “the banking concept of education” has demonstrated this aspect …show more content…
The system does not give students the opportunity to think or to make their own opinion on any matter. Friere describes the current system of education as one that turns students into adaptors of situations rather than transformers (9). Sometime the information taught by teachers or the textbook are misleading and due to the system the students take in the information as is presented to them without questioning it. Loewen describe the History field as one that has been totally dominated by textbook which most of them are derived from one another and not from primary sources (5). The history books tend to present optimism and overlook failures in the American history. History is written by the victor, and Americans are not always the victor and yet we have a huge variety of history books. So we overlook the fact that we may have failed in …show more content…
An example is Christopher Columbus and the discrepancies in many historical textbooks with the interactions between the Europeans, the European settlers and the Native Americans. Often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about America's commerce in slavery. Loewen continues to criticize the texts for a tendency to avoid controversy and for their non-engaging style. He states that when historical textbooks talk about historical figures to the status of supermen/superwomen, they unintentionally give students the impression that these personas are mythical figures that lived in the past. Another example is the history-as-myth method which teaches students that history’s greatest days are past and do not relate to the current