Ashley Jackson
3/14/10
TED 3380

Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1: Chapter 8-14

5- In chapters 8-14 of Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks talks a lot about treating everyone the same. There is tension between white and black women, black and white males, and also their languages. People think that they can speak freely when they really cannot. hooks wants educators to teach that people that are different are good and there is nothing wrong with not all being the same way. hooks also talks about how teachers need to combine theory with practice. The teacher and student needs to work together.

4- 1.) Page 113: “In a feminist classroom, especially a Women’s Studies course, the black student, who has had no previous background in feminist studies, usually finds that she or he is in a class that is predominantly white (often attended by a majority of outspoken young, white, radical feminists…”
2.) Page 122: “Black discourse on feminism was often confined to endless debates about whether or not black women should involve ourselves in “white feminist” movement.”
3.) Page 130: “To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or may not be erected by race, gender, class, professional standing, and a host of other differences.”
4.) Page 167: “Like desire, language disrupts refuses to be contained within boundaries. It speaks itself against our will, in words and thoughts that intrude, even violate the most private spaces of mind and body.”

3- “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children” (page 167) - poem by Adrienne Rich
Feminist (page 125) - the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men
Transgress (page 207) - to go beyond the limits imposed

2 – Two connections I had with the text were that I agree with bell hooks when she says that everyone should be accepted and even though someone is different it does not mean that this is a bad thing. If everyone was the same our world would be a boring place where nothing interesting and exciting ever happened. Another connection I had with the text is that I agree with hooks when she says that teachers and students need to work together in order to make our education a better place of learning. In order to become better teachers we need to test and try out different theories and see what works.

1 – What are some different theories that could be practiced in the classroom?