Analysis Of Bell Hooks 'Made To Stick'

Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath analyzes six criteria that make an idea stick. Two of those are Emotional, which motivates the target audience to care about the Central Message (Heath, Volpe), and Stories, which motivates the target audience to take action on the central message (Heath, Volpe). In the text, “Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment” by Bell Hooks argues that college english teachers should educate for liberation to allow students to learn to think critically and analytically in order to critique conventional expectations and desires in the world around them. She teaches education for liberation, not education for domination. By teaching in this way the students are able to connect emotionally with the world and its …show more content…
A Simulation story is a how-to story that the audience can easily replicate and expect to achieve the same success. Teaching for liberation, not domination, and showing how the students benefited. Hooks satisfies both a Challenge Plot and Creativity Plot when she started her teaching career after her struggles faced in college. While attending college at Stanford Hooks struggled to find herself among people with differing views, even having difficulty finding significance in her education (Hooks). After graduating in english she was disappointed by the universities lack of intellectual challenge, and education for domination, that the teacher didn’t even acknowledge (Hooks). When she began to teacher she wanted to educate students differently from how she learned, changing the politics, or ideologies, to educating for liberation (Hooks). Influenced by a passage by Paulo Freire, he said education could be a space for the development of critical consciousness, with mutual growth of the student and teacher (Hooks). Hooks created this new approach to teaching, educating for liberation, and taking down the structures of domination previously taught by her professors (Hooks). The success started to show one semester when hooks encouraged students to think about the social context and the impact of domination on the writing (Hooks). The students complained they began to feel pain, and experienced seeing the world in a different way showing the pain faced in the world throughout history (Hooks). Hooks was unsure how to respond to the students’ pain at first, but then a discussion started about society’s approach to pain (hooks). Pain could be a way of growth instead of falling behind, and might lead to clarity and a greater sense of well-being (Hooks). It showed the students a new way of critiquing the world around