Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
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Teaching to Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom

Author: bell hooks

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2018


Synopsis

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations 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.

Bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?

Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise critical questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future o teaching its self.

“To educate as the practice of freedom,” writes bell hooks, “is a way of teaching that any one can learn.” Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher’s struggle to make classrooms work."

About Bell Hooks

A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Feminist Theory, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. She is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 25, 2022

I liked bell hooks’ intelligent and passionate writing about the importance of elevating teaching through making it personal and cultivating professors’ self-awareness. As always she writes well about the intersection of race and gender and class, especially about dynamics between Black women and wh......more

Goodreads review by Meagen on July 26, 2012

This book renewed my passion for teaching, especially in light of the constant rhetoric of adult education existing to create an efficient economic pipeline. It reminded me at a critical time that I am not the only one who believes education of marginalized people can--and should--be something more.......more

Goodreads review by Gabriela on November 05, 2018

Que livro maravilhoso. Encontrei, nas reflexões de hooks, eco das minhas paixões, motivações, temas e problemas durante o ofício de professor. Fiquei profundamente emocionada com a leitura amorosa & crítica que a autora faz da obra do Paulo Freire. Um livro para todo mundo que é, foi ou pensa em ser......more

Goodreads review by Gabe on June 06, 2022

Recommended by my fellow education guy Sam, and although this is definitely directed at teaching college level not Primary school like we do lol, still feel like i got something out of it. I’m also almost amazed this is my first time reading hooks, but at the same time I feel like she was to Oberlin......more