Express what you know about Critical Pedagogy (CP)

Power Game:
Imagine you are very interested in baseball; you often watch the games on
television, go to stadium off and on, even join a local team at weekends to
practice more. Now there is an opportunity for you to meet up with a professional baseball
player, and you ask for some tips ON HOW TO to improve. What IF HE WERE NOT ABLE TO BE patient with you, or even worse, he did not pay attention to you, considering YOU TO BE AN AMATEUR? This may HAVE AN EFFECT on your interest in the sport itself. You may be very
disappointed or decide that you do not want to try any more.
We do not want to talk about baseball but about relationships. We want to have a
critical look at teaching and education systems. Whilst having a critical glance at
Hollywood movies, we can effortlessly see that many of them are talking about
how teachers express themselves and their lives because of teaching. But is it the
real picture that they should show? It is not a proper attitude. We all are living
our lives, so do teachers! So, if people want to become a teacher to “save” the
others, they must change their attitude. There is no need to HAVE A MARTYR COMPLEX!
Banking system of education:
There are some PRINCIPLES in this system of education that we oppose. In this
method,” Students are LIKE empty vessels which should be filled by information.” or
“Students are like sponges which have to soak up everything that their teacher is
TELLING THEM.” But this is not a good way. Teachers must assure their students
that they also have some knowledge in different subjects, like their teacher; and THE CLASSROOM is a place where both teacher and students are learning from each
other. Students should get rid of this attitude that they do not know anything and
teachers know everything.
There are some problems that make teachers, IN THE SAME WAY AS bank clerks, limit their
creativity and stick THE BANKING SYSTEM of education. These are some examples:
It is very easy to expose critical pedagogy to kindergarten or elementary
students, because they trust their teachers and their methods. HOWEVER, it is harder for
higher grades such as high school or university students. Because they HAVE EXPERIENCED THE "BANKING SYSTEM" FOR YEARS AND YEARS. Due to these
problems, teachers must insist on creativity and persist WITH A METHODOLOGY BASED ON CRITICAL THINKING until students BECOME accustomed to it.