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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom [Paperback]

Bell Hooks (Author)
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Cultural theorist hooks means to challenge preconceptions, and it is a rare reader who will be able to walk away from her without considerable thought. Despite the frequent appearance of the dry word "pedagogy," this collection of essays about teaching is anything but dull or detached. hooks begins her meditations on class, gender and race in the classroom with the confession that she never wanted to teach. By combining personal narrative, essay, critical theory, dialogue and a fantasy interview with herself (the latter artificial construct being the least successful), hooks declares that education today is failing students by refusing to acknowledge their particular histories. Criticizing the teaching establishment for employing an over-factualized knowledge to deny and suppress diversity, hooks accuses colleagues of using "the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power." Far from a castigation of her field, however, Teaching to Transgress is full of hope and excitement for the possibility of education to liberate and include. She is a gentle, though firm, critic, as in the essay "Holding My Sister's Hand," which could well become a classic about the distrust between black and white feminists. While some will find her rejection of certain difficult theory narrow-minded, it is a small flaw in an inspired and thought-provoking collection.
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Feminist writer and English professor hooks shares insights, strategies, and critical reflections on pedagogical practice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, Sep 22 2002
This review is from: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
For all of my colleagues who have yet to read this book, get it and read it. Ingest it. Allow the words to brew in your mind. Begin to visualize in your mind's eye how you might become the kind of educator hooks' advocates for. I strongly recommed this book for all educators, no matter what level you teach.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding the roots of Racism, Feb 3 2002
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Don R. Easton-Brooks (Denver, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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After reading this book and reading the Amazon.com readers' reviews to this book, it is evident that there are "White-readers" who do not understand hooks' point and the basic notion and theory behind racism. My suggestion is that if you are white, you should explore the topics of racism, power, and class before attempting to understand the depths of which hooks is writing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Changed My Life, April 4 2001
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hooks does an exemplary job of illuminating, in accessible language, the ways in which race, class and sex intersect in "the academy" and in the classroom. I highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches -- in higher ed or K-12.

If you are White and/or middle class and are willing to *listen* to what hooks offers, you may well say, after reading her book: "I was blind, but now I see."

hooks may not cater to a middle-class, white readership (nor should she), but those of us who fall into those categories certainly can learn from her experiences and from her critical analysis.Open your mind. Let your defenses down. And sink into a book that can change the way you approach classroom instruction -- and, perhaps, the way you live your life.

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