"The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter."
- Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminist Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
"All students have an innate desire for encouragement, challenge, and feedback."
- Yvette Jackson, The Pedagogy of
Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools
"[Students] must shake off the passive role of receiving information and become apprentices who actually do the work of the disciplines they are studying"
- Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry
A few influential thinkers...
The following theorists have greatly influenced my teaching practice.
“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself..."
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
- Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”
-bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope