The school attempts to create an ‘ideal’ educational environment by employing various institutional practices to silence non-conformity and it is made possible through continuous disciplining and surveillance of the minds and bodies of students (Kjaran 2014). In a very personal style, she critically delineates the understanding of pedagogies inside a classroom and walks us through the importance of resistance, experience and ‘ecstasy’ in teaching as well as learning in Teaching to Transgress. ‘Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom’ published in 1994 was bell hooks’ first major work on education. ‘The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy’- hooks, 1994 Introduction
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