Pedagogies to Frame Your Teaching
“[I experienced] the difference between education as the practice of freedom and education that merely strives to reinforce domination.” – bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994, p. 4.
What do pedagogies as a practice of freedom share?
- Attention to power between the instructor and the student as well as in society
- Contextualized learning facilitated by addressing social issues in the course content
- Human connection and human centered learning
- Address power dynamics in and outside the classroom
- Address how social issues are situated in your content
- Create human centered spaces in and outside your classroom
- Change
- Discomfort
- Hope
Questions to consider when thinking through pedagogy
1. How do I want the students to learn?2. How do I want to grow as a teacher?
3. How am I creating the right environment so that it is truly safe to fail?
4. Have we included all the voices and identities necessary into the room to receive feedback?
Further Reading
- Boler, M. (2004). Teaching for Hope: The Ethics of Shattering World Views. In Teaching, Learning and Loving. Eds. Daniel Liston and Jim Garrison. New York: Routledge Falmer.
- Gannon, K. (2020). Radical Hope: a Teaching Manifesto. West Virginia: West Virginia University Press.