In your own words, what is the difference between what Freire calls True Generosity and False Generosity?
Describe a current/historical example of a program/intervention that is/was “True Generosity”?
Describe a current/historical example of a program/intervention that is/was “False Generosity”?
Was the majority of your K-12 education closer to Freire’s “banking” or “problem posing” model of education? (provide brief evidence for your answer)
Describe any class/course/learning experience (either K-12, undergraduate, or other) that you experienced as liberating or consciousness raising?
What made it that way?
B. Questions on “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and applying Freire:
In the April 12 letter to MLK the eight Alabama Clergymen describe their suggestions to Dr. King as “a new constructive and realistic approach to racial problems.” Would you classify their recommendations as “true” or “false” generosity?
Justify your response to question 1.
Dr. King says “it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” Do you agree or disagree with Dr. King’s statement?
If Dr. King is correct, what are the implications for using consensus vs. conflict organizing strategies in challenging privileged groups?
What is your biggest take-way from Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”