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August 17, 2025Open Access

Transgressive Body, Open Mind, and Perceptive Spirit for Nurturing Soul: A Reflection on Teaching to Transgress

Key Points

The author illustrates how engaging in a classroom can be a transgressive act, emphasizing personal identity and education.
Key concepts from critical feminist pedagogy frame the discussion, particularly in relation to bell hooks' ideas.
The narrative focuses on creating a liberatory environment for both the educator and students in the classroom.
This reflection suggests that embracing transgression can enrich teaching practices and promote critical engagement.

Abstract

In this reflection essay, I discuss my journey into the liberatory pedagogy bell hooks champions. As a foreign-born Japanese woman, who speaks English as her second language, being in the classroom itself can be seen as a transgressive act. Positioning myself as an educator who strives to creates an environment that is liberatory for me and my students, I discuss my specific experience and relationship to theories surrounding critical feminist pedagogy and how I practice these theories in my own classroom.

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