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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. How did Bode use images to teach students?

2. What sort of education does Friere suggest would be a viable alternative to Banking Education?

3. Why, according to Friere, do oppressive regimes maintain untested feasibilities?

4. What did Bode discuss about students that he observed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Friere see traditional education similar to an economic system?

2. Who is the educator working in partnership with?

3. How does Friere's system challenge oppression?

4. What is a Limit Act?

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

6. What is an Untested Feasibility?

7. What is the Thematic Universe?

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

9. Who was Gabriel Bode?

10. What does Friere call traditional education?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of the figure of Che Guevara to Friere's argument, and how he exemplifies (or doesn't) Friere's ideas.

Essay Topic 2

With reference to the text, what is Gabriel Bodes' theory of didactic materials and how does he believe that they should be used? Come up with examples of your own to show this theory.

Essay Topic 3

Why was it important to Friere that the revolutionary leader come from the margins or even outside of the system that they are trying to overthrow?

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