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A 12 page paper which compares Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of
the Contact Zone" and Paulo Freire's "The Banking Concept of Education." Bibliography
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very complex, though perhaps also a very truly simple, reality. From cultural interaction to the relationship between teacher and student, we can often find that the aggressive and supposedly dominant
group will win out, leaving the others to lose a great deal. Mary Louise Pratt in "Arts of the Contact Zone" indicates that there is a level of supremacy in
regards to aggressive cultures that does not allow for creativity. In Paulo Freires "The Banking Concept of Education" he argues that the education system, the aggressive and presumably correct group,
sees itself as the wells of knowledge and the students are seen as receptacles that ultimately know nothing and when they are taught they should retain knowledge, not think creatively
about information. As we can see these are very complex, but also very simple realities that inform us about conditions we have perhaps been taught to ignore. In the following
paper we examine the two works, and then present a comparison of the two. Mary Louise Pratt "Mary Louise Pratt defines contact zones as social spaces where cultures
meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many
parts of the world today" (Anonymous Mary Louise Pratt defines "contact zones", 2002; body_contact_zone.html). Interestingly enough we find that her use of this phrase was begun as a method of
explaining, or referring to, "the space of colonial encounters" which have taken place throughout time as one culture enters into another and must find a way of communicating with one
another (Anonymous Mary Louise Pratt defines "contact zones", 2002; body_contact_zone.html). In her theory she stresses the fact that every single culture, in regards to its literary form of expression,
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