subtext

Been reading bell hooks, “Teaching to Transgress,” most of the day today in between grocery shopping for the week, cleaning house, cooking and spending some face time with the children. I think I read too much, most of what hooks says does not seem all that radical. Yes, the banking model for teaching is still the main model in my school, but then things don’t change in education. In “Schoolteacher’ Lortie describes teachers from a sociologists perspective. What I found depressing about it was it was written in 1975, based on research done in the 60’s. Not a whole lot has changed. I recognized most of what he wrote about in the school where I work. But then one of the things he wrote about was how hard it is to cause change in the school system, because the very structure of the school makes it difficult to change. So, I guess even though I have read most of what hooks says in her book before, it is still considered radical because the schools are so conservative.