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VOL. 10, ISSUE 1 (2024)
Transgressive teaching: Pedagogic practices and the aesthetic representation of racial politics within classrooms
Authors
Heba Fatima
Abstract
Henry Giroux, the founder of critical
pedagogy, in an interview suggested that education cannot be neutral and those
who argue for the neutrality of education are arguing for a kind of education wherein
nobody could be held accountable. A response to this neutrality ought not to be
an acknowledgment or a denial of the neutrality, but rather an investigation
into what is it that makes education non-neutral. This calls for speculation
into the classroom as a space and the pedagogy imparted in that space. The
classroom comes with multiple identities of race, class, gender and so on. This
paper explores the nuanced politics of racism in classrooms through their
aesthetic representations via a documentary entitled Teach us All, a
graphic novel by Jerry Craft called New Kid and E.R Braithwaite’s novel To
Sir With Love. Using Paulo Freire’s concept of conscientizacao, or
critical consciousness, and bell hooks’ idea of engaged pedagogy to encourage
critical thinking among students, the paper analyses how a ‘Freirean’ or a
‘hooksian’ method of teaching can enable a student to understand racism as a
social evil and to provide a space for countering such evils.
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Pages:31-34
How to cite this article:
Heba Fatima "Transgressive teaching: Pedagogic practices and the aesthetic representation of racial politics within classrooms". National Journal of Advanced Research, Vol 10, Issue 1, 2024, Pages 31-34
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