To Friere, the banking model is described as a knowledge holder sharing knowledge to a knowledge receiver without any feedback from the receiver. This is known as the standard classroom model in which a teacher shares his or her knowledge with students as they feed off that given information. This allows the teachers (knowledge holders) to be empowered because they hold the knowledge that is being given or distributed to the knowledge receivers.
I have had experience with this banking model. When I was younger I used to take karate lessons and when displayed the right techniques my teacher would go forward with the lessons and teach me new moves. By making sure I knew each of these moves before teaching me new ones the teacher allowed me to memorize all of these techniques. Which ultimately lead to me receiving a black belt. The positive aspects of this model of teaching through this experience were that I learned and memorized different moves. However, the negative aspects of this model were that I had to please my teacher through the depiction of the techniques I have learned giving him the power to choose whether or not I could move forward and lean new routines.
I found it interesting and very cool that Sairah applied the Banking model to a scenario outside of your typical desk, whiteboard, school scenario. In her Sairah used the banking model to speak on when she used to take karate lessons. I thought this was interesting and I wanted to commend her for it because it only goes to prove how applicable and common this model is, that it exists in many other dimensions in our lives outside of typical classrooms and this can be problematic when the desire for knowledge is interfered by position of authority.
My post was similar to Sairah’s because we both could relate to the positives and negatives that come with this specific model. We both indirectly agreed that the Banking model may lead to more independence and to successful learning skills which is a pro of this model; however something Sairah had mentioned that I didn’t consciously think about was the significance the “position of authority” has, as they are the ones who choose if you can “move forward” or not. In the scenario of academic school, a lot of teachers can determine some students future simply off a grade, and many teachers can abuse this, and this just shows one case in which the Banking model may not be the best model, for a reason like this.
Thank you for sharing your post, it was interesting to see a different perspective and how it can align to mine. I enjoyed reading it!