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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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About this listen

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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This book hits the nail on the head and needs to be read and discussed by all teachers everywhere.
It's critical for any educator to have Good mental health!

Fantastic

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I love Robin Miles' reading of bell hooks' writing. As a teacher, I am inspired and comforted by hooks' leadership in engaged pedagogy. As important in 2020 as it was in 1994. Thanks!

thanks for an inspiring lesson

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I have heard Bell Hocks talked of as some kind of great thinker. How some can get that idea is beyond me.

Bell Hocks does not really seem to say anything.

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