Overcrowded engaged classrooms degrade into edutainment spectacles

Evidence

The more the engaged classroom becomes overcrowded, the more it is in danger of being a spectacle, a place of entertainment. When that happens, the potentially transformative power of that classroom is undermined, and my commitment to teaching is undermined. … We have to resist being turn ed into spectacles. That means resisting “star” status, resisting playing the role of performer. One of the disadvantages, I’d say, to your own celebrity might be the attraction of certain people to the classroom to watch, rather than to be engaged. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 320

Categorization

• SEED: Cross-shot at performance culture in teaching and the decline from participation to passive watching resonates with media/cinema critiques hooks writes elsewhere.
• XREF: connects to: Generating classroom excitement requires abandoning fixed agendas and fixed authority — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 24; Baroque library design sacrificed reading space for visual display — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 494; Postmodern architecture of spectacle displaced austere modernism for urban redevelopment. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 563 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Departmental overloading of popular professors covertly undermines engaged teaching #corroborates (0.88) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 404
• Immersive multimedia events transformed ordinary auditoriums into new kinds of spaces #expands (0.82) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 964
• Generating classroom excitement requires abandoning fixed agendas and fixed authority #qualifies (0.78) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 24
• Liberatory teaching in one classroom can leave students voiceless and alienated elsewhere #qualifies (0.78) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 285
• Baroque library design sacrificed reading space for visual display #expands (0.76) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 494
• Postmodern architecture of spectacle displaced austere modernism for urban redevelopment. #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 563
• Policy choices about university size created physically segregated cities of youth #expands (0.74) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 418