Or for that matter, in our ‘elite’ colleges and universities, professors are asked to publish as robotic performers for their career prospects, and seldom is there any importance attached to the art of teaching, or the significance of a vibrant/passionate/joyful classroom. Here in India, our students and teachers are obsessed with a purely exam-centric/rote learning. The New Leam believes that here in our country students and teachers ought to engage with Bell Hooks-a great professor and pedagogue who could question the politics of gender and race in American universities, invoke Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, question the fetish of ‘neutrality’ and detached ‘scholarship’, and articulate without the slightest hesitation that no meaningful teaching/learning is possible without dialogue and communion, or without passion and ecstasy.
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