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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. In what ways, according to Friere, does the educator have power over the students’ knowledge?

2. What is a ‘Limit Act’?

3. What does Friere think is the difference between humans and other animals?

4. What does Friere write is the role of the teacher in traditional education?

5. What form of education does Friere determine is a contradiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Gabriel Bode?

2. What is an Untested Feasibility?

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

4. Who is the educator working in partnership with?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is objective truth treated in Friere's system of education?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Are traditional methods of education oppressive?

Essay Topic 2

Is it possible to educate oppressed people living in poverty to give them a critical awareness of their own situation?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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