Engaged pedagogy uniquely requires teacher self-actualization before student empowerment

Evidence

Progressive, holistic education, “engaged pedagogy” is more demanding than conventional critical or feminist pedagogy. For, unlike these two teaching practices, it emphasizes well being. That means that teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students. … In the United States it is rare that anyone talks about teachers in university settings as healers. And it is even more rare to hear anyone suggest that teachers have any responsibility to be self-actualized individuals. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 42

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes engaged pedagogy from critical and feminist pedagogy by its demand for teacher well-being.
• XREF: Mirrors a tension in the Frankfurt School work about the scholar’s own psychological state; and the craft note that effective teaching functions as catalyst. — connects to: Teacher vulnerability is the precondition for mutual classroom empowerment — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 58; Engaged pedagogy grants students authority over their own meaning-making; Genuinely engaged teaching exhausts the spirit and demands structural support — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 402 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Teacher thinking is only validated through students’ authentic thinking #corroborates (0.82) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 221
• Engaged pedagogy grants students authority over their own meaning-making #expands (0.80)
• Dialogue-based pedagogy must express the students’ own consciousness #expands (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 175
• Genuinely engaged teaching exhausts the spirit and demands structural support #expands (0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 402