Systemic dual-pressures drive the best liberatory teachers out of classrooms

Evidence

Accordingly, many teachers, consciously or unconsciously, reproduce a variety of authoritarian classroom practices—in the name of classroom management—in efforts to maintain physical control of their students. Teachers who struggle in this repressive climate to implement liberating strategies are often forced to wear masks of deception—saying what the principal or district office wishes to hear, while they try to do, behind closed doors, what they believe students need. Unfortunately, having to shoulder the hidden physical stress of this duplicity can drive some of the most effective teachers away from the class—leaving so they can remain in integrity with their liberatory commitment. While others, who begin to sense defeat, in frustration adopt more authoritarian approaches to manipulate and coerce cooperation, while justifying their actions, in the name of helping students succeed academically. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1461

Categorization

• XREF: Directly pays off the chapter 13 notes on accountability standards forcing teachers into fabricated performances and the inner-outer self friction. — connects to: Accountability standards push teachers into fabricated performances that erase their inner selves. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 675; Teacher deskilling under management pedagogies weakens education as a democratic force — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 196; Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Departmental overloading of popular professors covertly undermines engaged teaching #exemplifies (0.88) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 404
• Genuinely engaged teaching exhausts the spirit and demands structural support #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 402
• Learning from below requires mutual ethical responding with a compromised teacher #complicates (0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2217
• Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload #contradicts (0.72)