Well-intentioned teachers silence students through curriculum and withheld recognition
Evidence
While good and just teachers would agree that our goal is not to oppress our students, in subtle and not so subtle ways, we, nevertheless, silence their voices in our classrooms. This silencing of student voices can happen in not so subtle ways such as teaching curriculum that aligns with the goals of the dominant culture to reproduce class, gender, and racial structures or by demanding obedience from students. More subtle ways of silencing students can manifest as withholding praise and acknowledgment of students who are perceived as troublemakers. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 728
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: ‘the withholding of praise as a classroom technology of control’ — a concrete mechanism essay on how recognition starvation disciplines students.
- XREF: connects to: Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 740; Order-obsession and fear of losing face silence dissent in classrooms — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 354; Standardized prepackaged curricula suppress learners’ critical thinking about their own experience — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 191 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students
#corroborates(0.95) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 740 - Standardized prepackaged curricula suppress learners’ critical thinking about their own experience
#corroborates(0.90) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 191 - Order-obsession and fear of losing face silence dissent in classrooms
#corroborates(0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 354