#engaged pedagogy

[feuillesmortes]

I think that one of the unspoken discomforts surrounding the way a discourse of race and gender, class and sexual practice has disrupted the academy is precisely the challenge to that mind/body split. Once we start talking in the classroom about the body and about how we live in our bodies, we’re automatically challenging the way power has orchestrated itself in that particular institutionalized space. The person who is most powerful has the privilege of denying their body.

— bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

[feuillesmortes]

— bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

[feuillesmortes]

— bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 

[somethignpoetsomethingsomething]

I never ask students to do an in class writing assignment that I am not willing to do. My willingness to share, to put my thoughts and ideas out there, attests to the importance of putting thoughts out there, of moving past fear or shame. … Engaged pedagogy emphasizes mutual participation because it is the movement of ideas, exchanged by everyone, that forges a meaningful working relationship between everyone in the classroom.

Bell Hooks, “Engaged Pedagogy,” from Teaching Critical Thinking (2010, pp.20-21)

[wu-wei-clan]

my program in college is modeled around and focused on engaged/critical pedagogy. but the white people in my class are so basic it's infuriating. i am so mad at school. because like, our readings and our work centers around marginalized peoples but students of color are still decentered in class. my education is put on the back burner so that white students can be coddled while learning about privilege and oppression. i am learning a lot less compared to my white peers. i feel like i should be paying less tuition than them. honestly, i've learned more just reading on my own and listening to people's lived experiences than i have in class so far. if i didn't want to go to grad school, i would never have finished my bachelors. i just wish that there was a university that decentered whiteness completely.

[letmetellyouwhereivebeen-blog]

Doing some work on my teaching philosophy and I just can't explain how much I love, love bell hooks. 

“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 in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, p. 12). 

[whentherewerebicycles]

Progressive, holistic education, 'engaged pedagogy,' is more demanding than conventional critical or feminist pedagogy. For, unlike these two teaching practices, it emphasizes well-being. That means that teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well-being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students.

-bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

[clairedonato]

Progressive, holistic education, "engaged pedagogy" is more demanding than conventional critical or feminist pedagogy. For, unlike these two teaching practices, it emphasizes well-being. That means that teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well-being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students.

Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress