Teachers must consciously impose their culture against pupils’ home culture

Evidence

In the school, the nexus between instruction and education can only be realised by the living work of the teacher. For this he must be aware of the contrast between the type of culture and society which he represents and the type of culture and society represented by his pupils, and conscious of his obligation to accelerate and regulate the child’s formation in conformity with the former and in conflict with the latter. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 354

Categorization

• XREF: The teacher as an agent of cultural hegemony — connects directly to how colonizing/assimilating institutions impose majority culture on marginalized pupils, a key mechanism for Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Traditional teacher authority dismisses student knowledge and acts oppressively — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 724; Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226; Teachers must validate students without validating the discourse that oppresses them — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1068 (+2 more)
• SEED: This is the Gramscian scaffolding behind ‘civilizing mission’ pedagogy in colonial schools — an angle for an essay on education as cultural imposition.