Liberatory teaching in one classroom can leave students voiceless and alienated elsewhere
Evidence
Coming to voice is not just the act of telling one’s experience. It is using that telling strategically—to come to voice so that you can also speak freely about other subjects. … They confessed, “You’ve taught us how to think critically, to challenge, and to confront, and you’ve encouraged us to have a voice. But how can we go to other classrooms? No one wants us to have a voice in those classrooms!” This is the tragedy of education that does not promote freedom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 285
Categorization
- SEED: This student confession is a sharp hook for an essay on how progressive pedagogy creates students the broader institution refuses to accommodate.
- XREF: connects to: A teacher’s conduct, not just content, determines whether liberatory pedagogy lands — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 281; Classroom teaching requires warding off forces that deaden the self. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 659; Freirean liberatory pedagogy can endanger students inside prisons — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 401 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Freirean liberatory pedagogy can endanger students inside prisons
#exemplifies(0.88) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 401 - Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students
#expands(0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 740 - Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class
#corroborates(0.78) - Classroom teaching requires warding off forces that deaden the self.
#qualifies(0.72) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 659