Professors can adopt progressive theory while reproducing the domination they denounce
Evidence
Finding Freire in the midst of that estrangement was crucial to my survival as a student. His work offered both a way for me to understand the limitations of the type of education I was receiving and to discover alternative strategies for learning and teaching. It was particularly disappointing to encounter white male professors who claimed to follow Freire’s model even as their pedagogical practices were mired in structures of domination, mirroring the styles of conservative professors even as they approached subjects from a more progressive standpoint. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 48
Categorization
- XREF: This gap between professed theory and embodied practice resonates with hooks’s central method (concrete ground/experience) and the broader observation that the ‘thought police’ archive continually documents how ideology claims don’t equal habit. — connects to: A professor’s embodied habits can undercut their stated critical politics — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 264; Progressive professors most often risk engaged pedagogy as resistance; Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class
#expands(0.96) - Professors can teach radical content while enforcing bourgeois classroom decorum
#exemplifies(0.92) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 358 - Professors resist treating students as whole people rather than as knowledge seekers
#expands(0.85) - Professors are often more enthralled by classroom power than by enlightenment
#corroborates(0.83) - Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests
#expands(0.79) — , The Rod and the Child, 5000 - Professors’ residential segregation from students breeds self-declared liberalism masking classroom conservatism
#corroborates(0.78) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 261 - Demands to subordinate theory to praxis can turn resistance into repression
#qualifies(0.74) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 284 - Progressive professors most often risk engaged pedagogy as resistance
#complicates(0.72)