Paulo Freire has been an influnce on my thinking for the past 30 years. Chapter 2 of his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed talks about the “banking method” of teaching, where a teacher deposits knowledge into a student everyday, contrasted with the problem-solving approach where people learn from real issues in their lives, using a vocabulary and set of concepts that make sense to them. Freire got himself sent into exile in Switzerland from his native Brazil by a military dictatorship for such “radical” and subversive ideas as these.
Ignatia (aka Inge de Waard) has just discovered Freire’s work, and reflects on it in regards to corporate training. There are other authors to also consider in the subfield of education called “critical pedagogy” (e.g., Henry Giroux, Michael Apple, John Holt) but Paulo Freire is a great place to start. (GW)
Critical Pedagogy: people can learn, but that does not make them philanthropists | Ignatia Webs | Ignatia | 21 January 2010
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