Learners’ own suggested topics become the curriculum only when posed back as problems.

Evidence

With the experience now behind me, I can affirm that the concept of culture, discussed imaginatively in all or most of its dimensions, can provide various aspects of an educational program. In addition, after several days of dialogue with the culture circle participants, the educators can ask the participants directly: “What other themes or subjects could we discuss besides these?” As each person replies, the answer is noted down and is immediately proposed to the group as a problem. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 363

Categorization

• XREF: The move of taking a learner’s suggestion and immediately reframing it as a question is the concrete inversion of the banking model; maps directly onto the reader’s redesign goal.