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"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
"Passionately defines the Black feminist point of view that needs to be reflected upon in classroom discussions." -- Contemporary Education
"Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks is a book that I not only love, but assign every semester to my Introduction to Women's Studies class. It is one of the best descriptions of the purpose and function of education and the educator that I've ever read. And students love it. So if you know any professors or students who aren't familiar with it, recommend it highly." -- Feminist Bookstore News
"Teaching to Transgress is useful as a platform for a critique of current notions and practices of teaching and learning." -- Canadian Home Economics Journal
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"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
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.
bell hooks speakes 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 a 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 questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.
"To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.
To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn. Read the first page
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Instead, in the university, she finds that it is a regarded as a haven for those who are otherwise unfit for social interaction. 'Being smart equates with being unstable'. She's not having it, and puts the system through her critical thinking - thinking which educators are supposed to be teaching yet cannot do! - finding that it's all just another coercive hierarchy. This is a hard, intellectual book. Freedom is not about having lots of money or being able to avoid being followed by CCTV by the government. It is the product of a major internal struggle against the social conditioning which we have been drugged with since we were born. In my own case, social conditioning came from parents, then teachers, then church, then society. Almost all of it - as Bel so expertly exposes - is complete rubbish. Indeed, it is worse than that, as it incorporates absurd ideas like men are better than women, white people are better than blacks, and straight people are better than gays. It's actually a poison in society, and everyone is poisoned.
It is difficult to explain the odd power of this book, so one can only suggest that people read it. However, it is so enlightening and hard-hitting that the people I lend my copy to often return depressed, desperate for another step. In which case I direct them to the work of Brene Brown.
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