The Lanham Method Revision

This page of revised text comes from my most recently written paper from a teaching and learning class.

Frierie addresses important issues in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Effective, transformative education positively changes the lives of students. In my own education are experiences that challenged my way of thinking. Also, some educational experiences taught me to be a mindless drone, memorizing information for a test. When I was critically thinking and making connections with subject matter to my life, I made learning a necessary part of life. Effective and transformative pedagogy adopted for my future classroom will require understanding of “banking” and “problem-posing” education.

Banking education is outdated and ineffective in giving students knowledge to thrive in the world beyond school. My own experiences show, good learning experiences connect a person with her existence. Friere explains the banking approach, “expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of students” (Friere, p. 53). Furthermore, students shouldn’t exist as “containers to be filled by the teacher,” but rather as “beings in the process of becoming” (Friere, p. 65). Making students a part of ongoing discussion conveys the message that their contribution is important. Making students active in their learning experience develops critical thinking, productivity, and communication skills, transferable to their lives outside education.