The, Freire, And Noddings All Shared Elements Of...

Nietzsche, Freire, and Noddings all shared elements of postmodern worldview in their writings. The main idea in postmodern worldview is that knowledge comes from and is learned through the community. All three authors demonstrated this in their writings. However, the topics in these writings discuss how to improve education. The authors want to change the current ways of teaching which doesn’t take into account the student as an individual. It was also clear that it is not only the educator’s job, but also the responsibility of the entire community to educate students. This shows that a priority of postmodern worldview holds on education and that the educators have to make changes to benefit the students. Freire and Noddings both wrote that the relationship between the teacher and the student is almost nonexistent. Freire discussed how teachers are very rote in their teaching and that students are passive in their learning. Freire (1993) explained how he sees t he teacher and student relationship, â€Å"This relationship involves narrating Subjects (the teacher) and the patient listening objects (the students)† (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, p. 1). The teacher simply gives the students the knowledge with little involvement from the students. They do not interact with the teacher, the concepts, or ideas being learned. The students take the information and memorizes it and to hopefully be able to use it at a later date. Freire considers this process of teaching being