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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Gabriel Bode?

3. What symptom makes it obvious to Friere that traditional education is oppressive?

4. What does the term 'didactic' mean?

5. How should didactic material be used, according to Friere?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does the educator have in Friere's system of education?

2. What is a Limit Act?

3. What does Friere call traditional education?

4. Who was Gabriel Bode?

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

6. What is an Untested Feasibility?

7. How can we describe Friere's thought as a continuation of Hegel's system of philosophy?

8. What is a Subject in Friere’s analysis?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Friere's idea of the Generative and the Thematic Universe. How does it work, according to Friere, and what would be good examples of this in today’s society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Friere's idea of Epochal Units. Is this a simplistic way of looking at cultural history or do you believe it to be accurate? Cite your societies own Epochal Units.

Essay Topic 3

Is revolution the only way to achieve social change? Considering Friere's work in comparison to modern culture, what are the options of unionizing or affecting social change? How would Friere agree or disagree with these efforts?

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