The classroom is the academy’s most radical space of possibility
Evidence
The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy. For years it has been a place where education has been undermined by teachers and students alike who seek to use it as a platform for opportunistic concerns rather than as a place to learn. With these essays, I add my voice to the collective call for renewal and rejuvenation in our teaching practices. Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions, I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions—a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 36
Categorization
- XREF: Closes the essay on the same phrase that opened the thread — education as the practice of freedom — from [16] and [24]. — connects to: The classroom remains a privileged location of possibility despite the academy’s limits — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 414; Classroom ideology presents education as a democratic space where all learners are equal — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 350; Community, not safety, is the right frame for radical classroom learning — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 88 (+2 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Community, not safety, is the right frame for radical classroom learning
#expands(0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 88 - Physical classroom movement dismantles the desk’s implied hierarchy of truth
#exemplifies(0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 259 - The collective attentional ecosystem, not the teacher, is the classroom’s agent.
#expands(0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 271 - Classroom ideology presents education as a democratic space where all learners are equal
#complicates(0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 350