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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation)

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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 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 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 therecord of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.

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From Publishers Weekly

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.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"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." -- FeministBookstore 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



"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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4.8 out of 5

96.92% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for the teacher in you

M.C. · May 28, 2023

I so loved this short book and found the wisdom and insight hooks' shares invaluable. I will be a better teacher for having read this book. And I will read it again and again and quote it and reference for years to come. If you're interested in decolonization or abolitionist work, this is a must.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful expression of the joys in teaching to learn freely.

m. · June 5, 2020

Beautiful expression of the joys in teaching to learn freely. We need to be self-actualized in order to help students find their journey to self-actualization. I don't see myself as being self-actualized. Can we ever reach that in one lifetime? But the fact that that journey is central to my life and that I express this to my students makes a difference. This book is so lovely. What a joy it would be to take a class from the author. Her writings here have affirmed my decisions these past years to open up the learnng experience.

5.0 out of 5 stars As described.

S. · November 15, 2023

The book came quickly and wrapped in its original plastic, which means it's in primo condition. I bought it because Brene Brown wrote in her book "Atlas of the Heart" that "Teaching to Transgress" had made a deep impact on her teaching style. I've just started to read this book, but I can see why.

5.0 out of 5 stars inspiring

E.M.A. · October 22, 2022

It’s a classic for a reason. Excellently written with clear and inspiring ideas. I even got the hard copy even though i have the ebook, because I need to read this again on paper.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reading for Educators

T. · May 23, 2019

Anyone interested in education should probably read this. hooks incorporates insights from her time as a student and her time as a teacher. She is one of the few writers I've encountered who seriously considers class (in addition to gender and race) in education and academia. If you worry that inclusive pedagogy shuts down or limits dialogue in the classroom, this book should help soothe you.I share the worry of certain critics here about needlessly complex language in academic work, but I really didn't see any of it in here.

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't go wrong with bell

M.W. · July 19, 2023

I bought this as a reference for my dissertation. Excellent work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent colletction of essays

K.A. · July 31, 2007

I couldn't put this book down! The essays were very thought provoking and interesting. The only section I skipped was the one on Paulo Freire. It was a little too dry from the beginning. I feel that the only people who won't like this book are the ones who choose to judge hooks on her word choice and try to read her words with their own connotations rather than the way she intended. Yes, she uses terms like "white supremecist" a lot. If you take that in the way we tend to use it in common language, you would think she believes that white people knowingly have some sort of racist agenda against other people; to draw that conclusion, you have to assume that she's just another black person blaming white people for their situations. It is clear that hooks is not at all playing a blame game, but is instead just calling it how she sees it. You have to read the book in its entirety to grasp the points she's trying to make. I also really liked how she included little stories from her own personal experience. She also attempts to explain her theory with support from events in history. Overall, I thought it was a great book. The vocabulary wasn't extremely difficult, so it could really be read by anyone, yet the points are very difficult to understand if you come to this book with preconceived ideas of how black women think or believe that your own life experience is the only truth. I would recommend this book to ANY college student, anyone interested in education, and also people who enjoy thinking. Definitely not a book for someone who doesn't want to have to think as they read.

5.0 out of 5 stars Written in 1994 and still relevant

P. · March 4, 2022

Although this book is nearly three decades old, it continues to hold a great deal of wisdom about what is needed to transform American classrooms into places that truly serve the needs of learners of all types.

Really good

A. · July 19, 2023

Loved it! Bell Hooks writes reflections about teaching and the academic evironment. She bases a lot of her teaching reflections/practice on Paulo Freire, which I find a great approach. A lot of it is about teaching and feminism so if these topics don't interest you then maybe it's not for you.

Sehr gut

B.B. · August 24, 2023

Sehr gut

Suddenly my feelings about my Uni course made sense

G.M. · November 30, 2022

It was in the first chapter that this book helped me to understand what I had felt was missing in my education as an undergraduate student; the pandemic robbed us of passionate teachers, it makes me question if self actualised people persist in challenging times — if they do, they are rare.

De acordo com o esperado

P.T. · August 11, 2022

Chegou em pouco tempo (4 dias) e em bom estado

Bien mais durée d'expédition longue.

S.R. · September 27, 2019

Bien, colis reçu bien emballé mais durée d'expédition longue.

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