Classrooms become radical when teaching enables transgression beyond boundaries
Evidence
The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy. For years it has been a place where education has been undermined by teachers and students alike who seek to use it as a platform for opportunistic concerns rather than as a place to learn. … Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions, I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions—a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 36
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes hooks’s core definition of ‘teaching to transgress’ as boundary-crossing education that is the practice of freedom.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing interests in the practice-of-freedom framing and critical pedagogy lineage (Freire). — connects to: Treating the classroom as static and repeatable serves institutionalized domination — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 314; The early feminist classroom tolerated student critique of teaching itself, enabling pedagogy-of-freedom thinking. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 22; Classroom conflict can be reframed as a catalyst for learning (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students
#complicates(0.81) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 740 - Professors can teach radical content while enforcing bourgeois classroom decorum
#complicates(0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 358 - Community, not safety, is the right frame for radical classroom learning
#qualifies(0.78) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 88 - Classroom conflict can be reframed as a catalyst for learning
#expands(0.72)