ABSTRACT

This chapter demonstrates how the process of knowledge generation through which the lecturer produces and organises lectures, small classes, and seminars for students also enables the lecturer to collect informal knowledge about these students and to use this knowledge to judge these students as such. It shows, lecturers' informal judgements of students enter into their formal judgements of students at the end of the semester in the examination process, grading is not an objective process. There has been a shift in the Cultural Studies and Womens' Studies literatures on pedagogy. The chapter also shows, lecturers are not alone in judging students; students obtain knowledge about lecturers as their lecturers generate knowledge for them. Steinberg claims that in Higher Education teaching practices, lecturers seek to regulate what their students can and cannot say, the contexts in which these things can and cannot be said, as well as how these things should and should not be said.