Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher–student with students–teachers.
(Freire and Macedo 1995).
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In this article we examine the use and misuse of the term “Freirean” with respect to student-centered classrooms, flipped classrooms and problem-based learning. In doing so, we unpack teaching methods which are contrary to dialogism and yet subsumed and reported as Freirean.
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Job, J., Sriraman, B. The Concept of Teacher–Student/Student–Teacher in Higher Education Trends. Interchange 46, 215–223 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-015-9249-3
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