The following text is about educational theory.
The "banking model" of education, criticized by Paulo Freire, treats students as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge by teachers. This assumes students passively receive deposits of information they must memorize and repeat. Freire advocated "problem-posing" education instead, where teachers and students investigate problems together dialogically. Knowledge becomes something created through inquiry rather than transferred from active teacher to passive student. This shift reconceives the student as a thinking subject and transforms the teacher-student hierarchy into collaborative investigation.
How does Freire's "problem-posing" education differ from the banking model?
Students remain passive recipients of knowledge
Knowledge is co-created through collaborative inquiry rather than transferred
Teachers have complete control over all learning
Memorization becomes the primary goal of education
Correct Answer: B
Choice B is the correct answer. In problem-posing education, "knowledge becomes something created through inquiry rather than transferred" and the hierarchy transforms "into collaborative investigation."
- Evidence: Created through inquiry; collaborative investigation.
- Reasoning: Process of creation replaces process of transfer.
- Conclusion: Co-creation through collaboration defines the difference.
Choice A is incorrect because students become "thinking subjects." Choice C is incorrect because hierarchy becomes collaboration. Choice D is incorrect because inquiry replaces memorization.