Topic proposal + Defense

Topic Proposal = 1

Thesis/ Defense

West Chester University is divided between academic buildings and the dorms in which students live in. Freire wants students to recognize that with education, the divide between academic buildings and student’s home’s separates living and learning into two individual concepts that aren’t cohesively intertwined in the world. Due to this, teachers and students interact differently and absorb information in a variety of different ways. West Chester University can link these two concepts together by moving academic classrooms into residence halls. This can create a more unified bond between the students and the teacher by helping both recipients of the matter retain information for further use. In doing so, West Chester can also create more flexible seating in classrooms so that students feel more comfortable and relaxed in their environment, as they do in the homes of their dorms or houses. Lastly, the school should implement more online classes where students can learn in the privacy of their own home. This concept can help bridge the gap between school and home lifestyles. Online schooling can offer a more private and enhanced way of learning for students since they can communicate with their teacher, one on one, without worrying about the intimidation that face to face contact brings.

Quotes:

 “The teacher teaches, and the students are taught”

• Freire suggests in society that education has its constraints
• I can use this quote to help emphasize if academic classrooms are relocated into residential halls, then teachers and students will be able to build a new foundation of learning.

Why?

• Students will be in the convenience of their own homes and can sleep in
  • Students can come prepared to class and have no reason to be late or forget course materials
  • This relocation of academic classes in a residence building can provide the opportunity for students to find other students in their residential buildings to study with
  • Teachers learn from the students’ study habits in the residential halls and how they should prepare next lecture for the students and advise them otherwise

“The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not “marginals,” are not people living “outside” society. They have always been “inside”—inside the structure which made them “beings for others.” (page 2, 4^th paragraph)

• Teachers and students can evolve through developing a new grit in learning. (a new sense of passion and perseverance toward something and this something can be school work for a successful future)
• Students have always been structured to listen and comprehend what is being ask of by the teacher, reinstating the teacher teaches and the students are taught.
• This quote helps emphasize students are more than just beings that live in residential halls and attend classes in the academic buildings. West Chester university can redesign the school by creating classrooms more comfortable to attend by creating flexible seating so students feel more at ease and at home during their studies.
• Dorms are a quiet place where one can study, and the library offers the same purpose
• We are able to live outside society if we can eliminate the separation between academic buildings and residential halls
  • There is a sense of the unknown in the outside society because we are so structured to learn facts and not build from experiences
  • Discussion circles is an example of having flexibility with seating in classes – this helps build off of one anthers idea’s based on experiences and/or previous knowledge

***need help making ideas more flowing and clear***