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Teaching to Transgress

Education as the Practice of Freedom

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Teaching to Transgress

By: bell hooks
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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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.

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It’s a must read for anyone who wants to transform their world and it’s also shows us how to do it!

Great books are timeless! Like this one.

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So relevant even in 2022. This book is fundamental to critical thinking in reshaping pedagogical praxis and subverting colonial and antiquated academia.

Liberating

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As an educator myself this book was critical for getting me out of the mindset that teaching must conform to certain restrictive notions of prestige, professionalism and hierarchy. A perfect book for scholars and anti-racist, progressive teachers.

essential reading

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