#ron scapp

[robertogreco]

Social theorist Michel Foucault used the occasion of his 1967 lecture, “Of Other Spaces”, to introduce a term that would remain generally overlooked with his expansive body of work, the notion of “heterotopia”, by which he meant a countersite or alternative space, something of an actually existing utopia. In contrast to the nowhere lands of utopias, heterotopias are located in the here-and-now of present-day reality, though they challenge and subvert that reality. The heterotopias are spaces of difference. Among the examples Foucault noted were sacred and forbidden spaces which are sites of personal transition.

Ron Scapp, “Notes on an Anarchist Pedagogy”

[funksflo]

The erasure of the body encourages us to think that we are listening to neutral, objective facts, facts that are not particular to who is sharing the information.

bell hooks in “Building a Teaching Community: A Dialogue” with Ron Scapp in Teaching to Transgress. She goes on to talk about how returning to the body as teachers means we disrupt objectivity, therefore helping our students and ourselves re-gain subjectivity. <3 <3 <3 

[funksflo]

But as teachers I think our emphasis has, over the years, been to affirm who we are through the transaction of being with other people in the classroom and achieving something there. Not just relaying information or stating things, but working with people.

Ron Scapp, in conversation with bell hooks in “Building a Teaching Community: A Dialogue.”