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Community education programs are typically designed and implemented unilaterally, without community input, to ensure standardized outcomes.
Community education programs are typically designed and implemented unilaterally, without community input, to ensure standardized outcomes.
False (B)
The primary goal of community education is solely to provide academic skills to individuals, disregarding broader social and community development.
The primary goal of community education is solely to provide academic skills to individuals, disregarding broader social and community development.
False (B)
'Conscientization,' as described by Paulo Freire, refers to the process of fostering a superficial understanding of one's immediate environment without critical analysis.
'Conscientization,' as described by Paulo Freire, refers to the process of fostering a superficial understanding of one's immediate environment without critical analysis.
False (B)
Freire's 'banking model' of education promotes a collaborative teaching approach where students generate knowledge.
Freire's 'banking model' of education promotes a collaborative teaching approach where students generate knowledge.
Freire's theory of praxis suggests that individuals should passively accept existing social structures without attempting to transform them.
Freire's theory of praxis suggests that individuals should passively accept existing social structures without attempting to transform them.
Praxis involves a cyclical process of theory, application, evaluation, and reflection, ultimately leading back to refined theory.
Praxis involves a cyclical process of theory, application, evaluation, and reflection, ultimately leading back to refined theory.
Community education solely focuses on individual psychological processes, disregarding the broader societal context and the need for social change.
Community education solely focuses on individual psychological processes, disregarding the broader societal context and the need for social change.
Community education restricts its learning methods to formal settings such as classrooms, without incorporating informal methods.
Community education restricts its learning methods to formal settings such as classrooms, without incorporating informal methods.
Community education programs aim to enhance the capacity of communities to maintain the status quo, preventing any disruptions to existing social structures.
Community education programs aim to enhance the capacity of communities to maintain the status quo, preventing any disruptions to existing social structures.
Community education is distinctly separate from community development practice and theory, pursuing entirely unrelated goals.
Community education is distinctly separate from community development practice and theory, pursuing entirely unrelated goals.
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Community Education
Community Education
A program promoting learning and social development, engaging individuals and groups within their local areas through diverse formal and informal methods.
Purpose of Community Education
Purpose of Community Education
Programs and activities are collaboratively developed, aimed at empowering individuals and groups to enhance their community's quality of life.
Conscientization
Conscientization
Developing a critical understanding of one's societal position through thoughtful examination and proactive engagement.
Banking Model
Banking Model
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Praxis
Praxis
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Dual Aim of Community Education
Dual Aim of Community Education
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Study Notes
- Community education promotes learning and social development through formal and informal methods.
- Programs are created through dialogue with communities and participants.
- It aims to build individuals and groups of all ages and enhance communities' capacity to improve their quality of life.
- Community education as a process for social change aligns with community development practice and theory, pursuing an equal society.
Paolo Freire's Perspective
- The situation of the oppressed stems from economic, social, and political forces.
- Enabling people involves developing a critical awareness of the world and their place in it, called conscientization.
- Conscientization is developing a critical awareness of one's social reality through reflection and action.
- Freire describes community education as the 'banking model,' an authoritarian teacher-pupil model viewing participants as 'empty vessels.'
- Freire's theory of praxis involves reflection and action to transform the world.
- Praxis is a cyclical process of theory, application, evaluation, reflection, and return to theory.
Community Education Goals
- Learning and education are viewed as more than just psychological processes.
- Community education aims to meet individual learners' needs in their educational development.
- It addresses community needs by enabling learners to analyze society and act for change.
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