hwaprints.blogg.se - Teaching to transgress hooks

Despite the frequent appearance of the dry word ``pedagogy,'' this collection of essays about teaching is anything but dull or detached. They view education as an act of resistance against the oppression of the traditional educational model.Cultural theorist hooks means to challenge preconceptions, and it is a rare reader who will be able to walk away from her without considerable thought. Progressive teachers are not afraid to take risks.Teachers cannot teach students to be self-actualized and open to vulnerability if they do not first practice self-actualization themselves. Teachers must engage in a process of self-care and mindfulness known as self-actualization in order to successfully empower students.

Every student must have a voice in the classroom and become active participants in the pursuit of knowledge. Engaged pedagogy is about student expression.hooks proposes a theory and method of teaching which she calls "engaged pedagogy." Engaged pedagogy goes beyond critical and feminist pedagogies in that it emphasizes the importance of the overall well-being of both the student and the teacher.Students should not just gain knowledge found in books but also obtain knowledge about how to live their lives. He taught hooks to acknowledge students as whole beings. Thich Nhat Hanh believed in holistic education which merges the mind, body, and soul of students and teachers. Thich Nhat Hanh's philosophy of engaged Buddhism views the teacher as a healer.

Freire believed that education can only be liberatory if teachers allow everyone to have their own voice and create a community of shared knowledge.

Freire instilled within hooks the philosophy that all students are active participants in the pursuit of knowledge, not passive consumers.

The banking system of education is a metaphor to describe the traditional educational model in which students are passive learners who simply receive, memorize, and repeat knowledge deposited by the teacher into students' mental "banks."

Freire is best known for his critique of what he calls the banking system of education.

Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), a highly influential and groundbreaking work in the field of critical pedagogy.

Freire is often referred to as the father of critical pedagogy, a theory and practice of teaching that acknowledges the classroom as a political space and encourages students to critique systems of power and oppression.

Two of hooks's greatest influences are Brazilian educator and activist Paulo Freire (1921–97) and Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (b.

bell hooks argues that education should be a practice of freedom, or an opportunity for students to bring their mind, body, and soul into the classroom and take action against systems of power and oppression.