The Banking Model

 

I found this visual to show as a model for the way in which students can learn. The Banking Education Model demonstrates the student on the left who has come to be filled with information. This presents the teacher as the Narrator and depositor, and in turn, the student as the "receptacles" and the depositories. 

 "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers" into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher." (Freire, 2018)

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor" (Freire, 2018)

The alternative system that Friere talks about, is Problem-Posing education. This pairs with the student on the right in the model. This concept encourages students to ask questions and to bring their own critically thought ideas to the table. This brings the relationship from vertical to horizontal and allows students to process with the teacher in classroom exchanges. This is the model that we should strive for in order to enhance the innate ability of critical thinking in future students.

"Indeed, problem-posing education, which breaks with the vertical patterns characteristic of banking education, can fulfill its function as the practice of freedom only if it can overcome the above contradiction." (Freire, 2018)

"The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach" (Freire, 2018)

Freire, P. (2018). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University Library.