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Sometimes it's difficult not to buy into the cultural hegemony, not to become messianic and middle-class privileged about teaching. The idea of teaching is to convey what you know, and sometimes it's difficult to know when exactly to draw the line with that. To prevent 'offering experiences' from sliding into 'guiding them where to stand to view those experiences from'. Obviously I have to teach what I know and how I know, and a part of how I teach is to attempt to use a wide variety of media that will possibly broaden their horizons, and that can't be negative surely? But then there's that part of me that's kind of appalled that when they go to London on a trip they get excited about seeing a Poundland, something familiar, rather than all the many and varied other awesome sights on offer. That in itself isn't an objectionable standpoint, but like I said, there's this difficulty in determining where lines are drawn; in pushing them towards a given cultural capital, when the defining and delineating of cultural capital is - as is generally found in a patriarchal, white, middle-class led society - problematic in itself.

Eh. Maybe I need to develop a little arrogance instead of all this introspection. Sometimes the teacher does have to be right, or at least believe they are...