teaching to transgress:education as the practice of freedom

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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 wellbeing if they are to teach in a manner... See more

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"As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recog. nizing one another's presence. Since the vast majority of students learn through conservative, traditional educational practices and concern themselves only with the presence of the... See more

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i longed passionately to teach differently from the way I had been taught since high school.

The first paradigm that shaped my pedagogy was the idea that the classroom should be an exciting place, never boring. And if boredom should prevail, then pedagogical strategies were needed that would intervene, alter, even disrupt the atmos phere.... See more

"They were committed to nurturing intellect so that we could become scholars, thinkers, and cultural workers-black folks who used our "minds." We learned early that our devotion to learning, to a life of the mind, was a counter-hegemonic act, a fundamental way to resist every strategy of white racist coloni-zation. Though they did not define or... See more

"School changed utterly with racial integration. Gone was the messianic zeal to transform our minds and beings that had characterized teachers and their pedagogical practices in our all-black schools. Knowledge was suddenly about information only. It had no relation to how one lived, behaved. It was no longer connected to antiracist struggle.... See more