Abstract
The banking model manufactures human consciousness that is easy to control. It programs individuals to accept and believe in a false concept of reality so that they fail to perceive the connection between human action and their immediate and higher social reality. In this way, it creates submissive subjects for the order of oppression. The oppressed are conditioned and incapable of perceiving the truth. Their critical and creative thinking potential is systematically annulled. This paper aims to reinterpret Freire’s essay on “the Banking Model of Education” using Tyler’s model of curriculum to uncover the practices of the educators at every level of the oppressor-controlled educational system. As Tyler’s model is often termed as a “Product model”, its framework can be useful in analyzing the banking model, which is purely productoriented, to achieve deeper understanding of the process which the banking model adopts to produce a certain type of psyche that can ensure the survival of oppression.
Highlights
Freire’s critique of the educational system established and implemented by the ruling elite has been a seminal work in the history of modern education
Freire exposed the oppressor-governed system of education prevalent at his time some fifty years ago in his celebrated book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, one cannot deny the existence of the banking model in the current era
A peculiar quality of the banking model is the efficiency with which it creates a type of consciousness and mindset that makes one a loyal subject of the order of oppression
Summary
Freire’s critique of the educational system established and implemented by the ruling elite has been a seminal work in the history of modern education. Reinterpreting Freire’s Essay on the Banking Model of Education by Using Tyler’s Model of Curriculum dependency on superior elite class when faced with various kinds of crisis in life. It turns learners into empty vessels capable of only but one vocation, that is, storing the deposits transferred to them by the teacher. In addition to curbing the intellectual potential of the oppressed, the banking model indoctrinates them to accept a false concept of reality as something that is above human existence and unchangeable This view of reality as a permanent and fixed phenomenon fosters an attitude of acceptance when faced with oppression and social injustice. It excels in producing a passive and docile oppressed class with a false concept of reality and consciousness hard-wired into their brains
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