The role of ‘excitement’ and ‘pleasure’ in the classroom space is often dismissed as ‘the banking system of education’ considers these experiences as disruptive to the learning process. The ‘sheer joy’ she used to experience in reinventing new ideas and self during her early schooling then got transformed into a distressed classroom reality where racist stereotypes were reinforced. In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks addressed how her experience of learning and attending the school changed with racial integration.
School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas reinvent myself”. “Home was a place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. Critically Engaged Pedagogy: A revolutionary pedagogy of resistance I remember the incident happened in 2018, in Kamala Girls School of Kolkata, where 10 girls were accused of indulging in homosexual activities, who were forcefully asked to admit so in writing by the then acting headmistress of the school.Īlso read: Bringing About Feminist Reforms Through Reflection Based Educational Practicesīell hooks, in Teaching to Transgress, illustrated the significance of feminist rethinking of pedagogical practices in order to engage and reinvent various possibilities and to create a learning community which is deeply engaged in, ‘hearing one another’s voice, in recognising one another’s presence’ in the classroom.īell hooks, in Teaching to Transgress, illustrated the significance of feminist rethinking of pedagogical practices in order to engage and reinvent various possibilities and to create a learning community which is deeply engaged in, ‘hearing one another’s voice, in recognising one another’s presence’ in the classroom. The school attempts to create an ‘ideal’ educational environment by employing various institutional practices to silence non-conformity and it is made possible through continuous disciplining and surveillance of the minds and bodies of students (Kjaran 2014). In a very personal style, she critically delineates the understanding of pedagogies inside a classroom and walks us through the importance of resistance, experience and ‘ecstasy’ in teaching as well as learning in Teaching to Transgress. ‘Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom’ published in 1994 was bell hooks’ first major work on education. ‘The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy’- hooks, 1994 Introduction
In this paper a crucial issue is being discussed which emerges in the context of progressing diversity of the schooling environment, as well the whole public sphere in general, i�e� cultural assimilation� This problem is to be addressed analytically through the means of pedagogical, socio-cultural and geopolitical discourse which prevails today in many Western countries and local debates on the.
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