In her book “Teaching Community” (2003), bell
hooks claims that educators must work “so that the
classroom is not a site where domination (on the basis
of race, class, gender, nationality, sexual preference,
religion) is perpetuated” and that it should be “a place
that is life-sustaining and mind-expanding, a place of
liberating mutuality where teacher and students
together work in partnership”. This is in agreement with
the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) because
it promotes the classroom as: