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To prepare for your next paper, review the instructions for Paper #2 and then answer the following questions as a way of gathering information and ideas for your paper.
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1. What teacher do you wish to analyze using Freire's article? Is this teacher a banker, a problem-poser, or both?
2. Keeping your Freirean label of your teacher (banker, problem-poser, or both) in mind, give three detailed examples from your experiences with that teacher showing that the label is correct.
3. Using your marked copy of "The 'Banking' Concept of Education" as a source, find a quote for each example above that links the teacher's behavior directly to Freire's text. You should have three different quotes, and you should include page numbers so that you don't have to look them up again later.
4. There are two ways to approach Paper #2: either identify the specific Freirean style that labels the professor to either show why the teacher was either effective or ineffective as an educator, or the teacher can serve as an example to offer a counterargument to Freire's claims that banking is a bad form of education while problem-posing is the better method. Which approach are you going to take? Outline what your argument will be.
5. One of the challenges of writing about an educator while using Freire's concepts is mistaking likability for effective education., particularly since Freire emphasizes how teachers communicate in both his descriptions of banking and problem-posing. Describe how the professor communicated and then tie that description to at least one quote from "The 'Banking' Concept of Education."