Professors unconcerned with inner wellbeing feel most threatened by liberatory pedagogy demands

Evidence

Fear of losing control in the classroom often leads individual professors to fall into a conventional teaching pattern wherein power is used destructively. It is this fear that leads to collective professorial investment in bourgeois decorum as a means of maintaining a fixed notion of order, of ensuring that the teacher will have absolute authority. Unfortunately, this fear of losing control shapes and informs the professorial pedagogical process to the extent that it acts a barrier preventing any constructive grappling with issues of class. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 377 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scholars who advocate critical pedagogy often fail to embody it in their own classrooms — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 280; Professors resist treating students as whole people rather than as knowledge seekers; Professors’ fear of losing control blocks any class critique in the classroom — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 377 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Professors’ fear of losing control blocks any class critique in the classroom #corroborates (0.82) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 377
• Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class #expands (0.75)
• Progressive professors most often risk engaged pedagogy as resistance #qualifies (0.72)