Teaching to transgress

216 pages

English language

Published July 25, 1994 by Routledge.

ISBN:: 978-0-415-90807-8

(1 review)

In Teaching to Transgress bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

1 edition

callan reviewed Teaching to transgress by bell hooks

I will learn from this for years

5 stars

I was so happy to pick this up when I did… this semester, I’m co-teaching a class that embraces the methods hooks illustrates here, and I didn’t necessarily have her perspective in mind as I’ve approached it. It was good to both hear that we’re on the right track with what we’re doing, and to have suggestions for how to keep learning & growing and avoiding a disaster in this classroom. Anyway. Definitely looking into Strangers in Paradise next, mentioned a few times here, a book about clear difference in academia.

Subjects

Critical pedagogy
Critical thinking -- Study and teaching
Feminism and education
Teaching