Group- Luke Jarvis
Topic: Topic 2- student power
Thesis: In “The Banking’ Concept of Education”, Freire realizes that learning is dependent upon the oppressed (the students), not the oppressors (the teachers). At WCU, students can improve their learning by putting an emphasis on their communication with students as well as teachers, working in a team, and their motivation to learn and experience new things.
Quotes:
“For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”-Page 1
“The students are not called upon to know, but to memorize the contents narrated by the teacher. Nor do the students practice any act of cognition, since the object towards which that act should be directed is the property of the teacher rather than a medium evoking the critical reflection of both teacher and students.”-Page 4
Good direction I see where you want to take this and suggest fleshing out and just getting 2-3 good concrete ideas for how students can take charge of their own education.