Kakutani versus Freire: What’s the point? Recently, I was thinking about my English composition class and the only two things that I can think about would have to be Paulo Freire’s “banking” and “problem-posing” ideas and Kakutani’s theory that the new generation does not debate enough. Now, what I want to ask is how do these two ideas compare with each other and what do these two ideas have to do with me, and with future generations? Why should I care? Paulo Freire came up with a theory that education is “just an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.” (Page 1: Pedagogy of the Oppressed) He goes on to say that the banking concept does not allow a “dialogue” between student and teacher and that the student becomes a passive person from the lack of this communication.
Freire speaks on what Rodriguez was going through at the early part of his schooling. Freire writes “This is the “Banking” Concept education, in which scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing , and storing the deposits.”(Freire244)) Freire saying that Rodriguez memorizing and imitating the teachers every move and announcement the teacher said that he was a victim of his own schooling. When Freire says, “filed away through the lack of creativity, transformation, and knowledge” By memorizing and repeating everything the
Chall continues to advocate for direct instruction in phonics. Early 1970s: The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), a phonetic alphabet, is used to teach reading in Great Britain and some school systems in North America. 1970s: The whole language philosophy, which has diverse intellectual roots in Australia, Europe, and North America, emerges. The philosophy promotes a meaning-based approach to learning to read. Mid-1970s: Research on reading shifts from a focus on texts to an emphasis on how readers construct meaning.
By locating its concern on the issues about morality and violence andexploring the limits of human cruelty Waiting for the Barbarians challenges humanityand imperialism in several ways. Presenting a psychoanalytic discussion of Waiting for the Barbarians this study focuses on the impact of fear in human psyche andimperialism’s self destructive power. How far fear and anxiety can go and how far members of society can follow a blind power is the main concern of this essay. AsCoetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegorical novel, this essay will try tointerpret the allegories created in relation to the tensions raised in the novel. The examination of the critiques raised in the book, may be broken down into thefollowing main components.
Mohsin Hamid expresses America is made out to be very prejudice of Muslim people in this novel. The arrogant American that meets up with Changez can be made out to have a strong dislike over Muslim people. However, the novel is more dependent and open to how the reader wants to take this. Hamid simply says what he can in this novel, even if it be racist, but each reader can take it differently. The American in the novel, whenever he is mentioned making a gesture or Changez describes his reaction, that’s the readers chance to think about what Changez is saying and can discuss their own thoughts on what might actually be said here or if the protagonist is saying the truth.
Topics for Essay I I. Apply some of the specific ideas that John Winthrop presents in “A Model of Christian Charity” to another work (fiction or nonfiction) that we have read this semester. That is, write a critical analysis of the text you select focusing on how one or more of Winthrop’s ideas are treated in that text. Some of Winthrop’s ideas to consider: class identity, human responsibility, commerce, economics, wealth, work, government (and any others you find). II.
Edmund Husserl’s Idea of Going Back to the Things in Themselves I. Introduction: The main problem of this work is to laid down the ideas of what Husserl really meant of zu den sachen slebst. This paper will also see the difference of Husserl’s method in knowing things compared to the methods or to the process in knowing of other philosophers just like of Aristotle and Descartes to name a few. Basically, the researcher will try to follow the idea on how Husserl finds the way of going back to the things in themselves. The researcher considers that it can only be done by more focusing on the method to which Husserl asserted in knowing the essence of things.
Their dissertations were in the field of education, library media science and student international studies, respectively. The following is an analysis and comparison of their responses to the interview questions. As the author, the interview questions are designed based on personal interests. At a crossroads in this process, due much to this class and lack of time and personal issues, one first asks the interviewees the question – WHY? Why did one decide to pursue a dissertation?
Andrew Ofstad's "America's Decline in Literacy Reading: Grappling with Technology's Effects on the Print of Culture" and Ursula Le Guin's "Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading" are both essays that focus on the decline of reading in society. Ofstad explains what he believes are pros and cons to technology and how it could be used with literature. While Le Guin can only see a negative affect technology has on society and literature, she believes literature should not coexist with technological devices. I understand that reading is necessary for learning, but I also believe that strategic games also help with developmental brain growth. Ofstad and Le Guin see with literature as a way to improve writing and
They try to understand the connection of language to culture and vice versa. Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf, theorized that language determines culture. According to their theory, members of different cultures see the world differently because they draw upon different linguistics to interpret it. Later this theory became known as the Sapir-Whorf