Denying student experience provokes its aggressive assertion in class.

Evidence

Usually it is in a context where the experiential knowledge of students is being denied or negated that they may feel most determined to impress upon listeners both its value and its superiority to other ways of knowing. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 175

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Structuring experience as shared practice prevents it from silencing others. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 170; Traditional teacher authority dismisses student knowledge and acts oppressively — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 724; Contradictions inside deposited content can trigger students’ turn against domestication. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 214 (+7 more)

Broader Connections