Liberatory Education quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What institution did Paulo Freire compare traditional education to?

   Answer: a bank

   Why: His line is that the teacher is the depositor and the students the depositories, whose action reaches only as far as receiving and filing.

2. 2 Medium

   Which interactive performance style helps students rehearse social change?

   Answer: Forum Theatre

   Why: Boal called it a rehearsal of revolution, and a neutral facilitator known as the Joker keeps the interventions moving.

3. 3 Hard

   Which active method replaces knowledge transfer in liberatory pedagogy?

   Answer: Problem-posing

   Why: Freire's formula is that authentic education is carried on not by A for B, nor by A about B, but by A with B.

4. 4 Easy

   According to Freire, what is the central problem of the oppressed?

   Answer: Dehumanization

   Why: Freire insists it cuts both ways: the condition marks those whose humanity was stolen and, differently, those who stole it.

5. 5 Medium

   What is the hidden curriculum?

   Answer: Unspoken values and social norms

   Why: Philip Jackson coined the term in 1968 and showed that classroom life itself teaches lessons no teacher plans.

6. 6 Hard

   Which philosopher wrote about a teacher who taught a subject he didn't know?

   Answer: Jacques Rancière

   Why: Jacotot was posted to Louvain in 1818 with no Flemish, handed his students a bilingual Télémaque, and they learned French anyway.