Topic selection: topic 4, course based learning
Team Selection: Sarah Veneziale and Cait Mangini
Thesis: Geology 101 is a class that deprives a student from learning any bit of information. Students will only be able to gain knowledge for this course if changes are made such as switching the lectures to online courses, student led discussion groups, and decreasing the amount of students in each class.
Quotes: “Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking methods of domination (propaganda, slogans—deposits) in the name of liberation”
“ Verbalistic lessons, reading requirements, the methods for evaluating “knowledge,” the distance between the teacher and the taught, the criteria for promotion: everything in this ready-to-wear approach serves to obviate thinking” (Freire 3)
I like your idea about switching the lectures from in class to online. This would be beneficial so that that you dont waste time in class and you can learn more outside of class. Having small group discussions would also make a huge help.
Maybe you can explain more about how this way of learning is not beneficial to you and show reasoning from Freire.