Ashley Jackson
2/27/10
TED 3380
Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1

5- In these chapters, Bell Hooks talks about how she thinks that teachers need to have the best instructional methods. Every teacher needs to value all of his or her students. Hooks also talks about how desegregation was a good and bad thing. She did not think it was fair that the black children were the ones having to be bused and go to schools where they were not wanted. Hooks really values Paulo Freire’s work. She talks a lot about feminism and how women were not treated the same as men were. I agree with most of the things she talks about and understand how desegregation was not fair to the black children and made it harder on them most of the time. I think that Hooks is trying to get her readers to understand that the world is not always fair and we need to change it and make it a better place.

4- 1.) Page 3: “School changed utterly with racial integration…Knowledge was suddenly about information only…Bussed to white schools, we soon learned that obedience, and not a zealous will to learn, was what was expected of us.”
2.) Page 13: “Throughout my years as student and professor, I have been most inspired by those teachers who have had the courage to transgress those boundaries that would confine each pupil to a rote, assembly-line approach to learning.”
3.) Page 59: “Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as “natural”.”
4.) Page 7: “Excitement in higher education was viewed as potentially disruptive of the atmosphere of seriousness assumed to be essential to the learning process.”

3- pedagogy (page 15) - the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.
voyeuristic (page 46) - an obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects
desegregation (page 46) - the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races, groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like

2- Two connections I had with the reading are first, I agree with Bell Hooks when she says that we need to value every student in our classroom. Each and every student is worth the same and each one should be treated equally. Another connection I had with the reading was that I do see every day how women are still treated and thought of differently than men. Our world has definitely become better about treating women almost as equal as men, but there are still some struggles we face today.

1 – How do you feel about feminism and what are some experiences you have had with women being treated not as equal as a man?