Cultural synthesis means educators learn with people rather than transmit anything

Evidence

In cultural invasion, the actors draw the thematic content of their action from their own values and ideology; their starting point is their own world, from which they enter the world of those they invade. In cultural synthesis, the actors who come from “another world” to the world of the people do so not as invaders. They do not come to teach or to transmit or to give anything, but rather to learn, with the people, about the people’s world. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 579

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the sharpest practical inversion from banking to problem-posing: the facilitator learns from the learners.
• XREF: Mirrors the reader’s core curiosity about Myles Horton at Highlander and ‘the best teacher is the one who learns’. — connects to: Teaching is continual reinterpretation rather than transmission of fixed content — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 267; Some queer educators teach as co-learners rather than as identity-based role models. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1263; Community, not safety, is the right frame for radical classroom learning — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 88 (+3 more)