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Resisting Distance Learning - Essay

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

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Cards/Banking model of education

Teaching and learning is not a simple matter of rote knowledge transmission—experts passing information to non-experts by whatever medium is available. That conceit, what Brazilian educator and philosopher Paolo Freire called the “banking” model of education, conceives of students as identical, replaceable workers.

Imposing the logic of factory production on education transforms creative expression into dull, repetitive drudgery.

Imposing the ==logic of factory production== on education does the same thing as imposing the logic of factory production on any form of work: it transforms creative expression into dull, repetitive drudgery.