Neither Freire nor feminist pedagogy accounted for pleasure in the classroom

Evidence

The first paradigm that shaped my pedagogy was the idea that the classroom should be an exciting place, never boring. And if boredom should prevail, then pedagogical strategies were needed that would intervene, alter, even disrupt the atmosphere. Neither Freire’s work nor feminist pedagogy examined the notion of pleasure in the classroom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Also echoes her grade-school experience of learning as ecstasy — a personal thread traced through the whole introduction. — connects to: Generating classroom excitement requires abandoning fixed agendas and fixed authority — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 24
• SEED: Potential essay: the unexamined absence of joy and fun in radical pedagogy literature — ‘why progressive teaching ignored pleasure.’