Early feminist classrooms uniquely allowed students to interrogate pedagogy itself

Evidence

Those classrooms were the one space where pedagogical practices were interrogated, where it was assumed that the knowledge offered students would empower them to be better scholars, to live more fully in the world beyond academe. The feminist classroom was the one space where students could raise critical questions about pedagogical process. These critiques were not always encouraged or well received, but they were allowed. That small acceptance of critical interrogation was a crucial challenge inviting us as students to think seriously about pedagogy in relation to the practice of freedom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 22

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Feminist classrooms allowed patriarchy critique but resisted confronting class — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 366; A feminist classroom is distinguished by perspective, not course listing; Feminist pedagogy’s refusal of the mind-body split makes Women’s Studies subversive — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 386 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A feminist classroom is distinguished by perspective, not course listing #expands (0.85)
• Feminist classrooms allowed patriarchy critique but resisted confronting class #complicates (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 366
• Feminist pedagogy’s refusal of the mind-body split makes Women’s Studies subversive #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 386