View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of education does Friere suggest would be a viable alternative to Banking Education?
(a) A joint problem-solving one.
(b) A religious education.
(c) A private education.
(d) A military education.

2. Why does Friere disagree with Banking Education?
(a) Because he dislikes teachers.
(b) Because it gives the students too much power.
(c) Because it disregards to students entirely.
(d) Because he dislikes students.

3. What is the traditional power structure between teacher and students?
(a) Both teacher and student have power.
(b) The teacher has no power and the student has it all.
(c) Neither teacher or student have power.
(d) The teacher has power while the student has none.

4. In what ways, according to Friere, does the educator have power over the students’ knowledge?
(a) The educator knows which answer is right and wrong.
(b) The educator gives out gold stars to good students.
(c) Only the educator can write on the blackboard.
(d) The educator knows where the textbooks are kept.

5. Why do traditional modes of teaching interfere with the development of a Subject, according to Friere?
(a) Because a person has to either be in the right or wrong and, therefore, is not their own Subject.
(b) Because the subject has to spend their time going to school.
(c) Because the subject has to spend money to go to school.
(d) Because the Subject gets taught lessons they are not interested in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes an Epochal Unit?

2. Why is solidarity with the oppressed important, according to Friere?

3. What does the term 'didactic' mean?

4. How are students treated in Banking Education?

5. What does 'inclusive education' mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Friere believe the educator must encourage the Subject to do?

2. What is the Thematic Universe?

3. What is a Generative Theme?

4. How does the educator use the idea of a Thematic Universe?

5. What does Friere call his own pedagogy of education?

6. What are some of the hallmarks of oppressive education?

7. What does Friere call traditional education?

8. Why does Friere believe it is important to ally oneself with the poor?

9. What is a Limit Situation?

10. What is an Untested Feasibility?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 713 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample