Problem-posing education builds critical understanding through interconnected challenges.

Evidence

Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge. Because they apprehend the challenge as interrelated to other problems within a total context, not as a theoretical question, the resulting comprehension tends to be increasingly critical and thus constantly less alienated. Their response to the challenge evokes new challenges, followed by new understandings; and gradually the students come to regard themselves as committed. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 234

Categorization

• DEFINE: The mechanism of problem-posing cognition: challenges nested in a total context produce critical, less- alienated comprehension.