nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

production pressure. i am all for progressthrough process. but never time for thatpffff.Trapped in the maze of marking and measuring progress, the body of theteacher swallows the stress of working within a system of league tables, ofsuccess, of failure. Within this system, the body of the teacher is equally measured,is pressured, is expected to forcefully squeeze others into an expectedshape: ‘No talking when I am talking! Quiet! I am waiting! Out! OUT!’What would happen if the body of the teacher would drop her teachy-roleand reveal who she was, what she believes in and why? Would she be able tocarve out a space where everyone could be encouraged to be who they are? Aspace to listen, to discuss, to trust, to act? What would we need to be able tocreate such space? What could we ‘teach’ each other to create such space?Endnotes1. bell hooks (1994), Teaching to Transgress, Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 191-1922. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning4. Paulo Freire (2004) Pedagogy of Indignation. Boulder: Colorado, Paradigm. p.155. Peter Mayo (1999), Gramsci, Freire, and Adult Education: Possibilities for TransformativeAction, Macmillan, p. 5174