The facilitator will send an access link to this webinar via email prior to the session. Participants will have access to the online version of this book through Temple Libraries. Registration for the first session will serve as registration for the subsequent sessions.

This book group meets for three sessions: Using bell hooks’ framework, we will consider how inequalities are institutionalized in higher education, and the ways we can “transgress” against racial, sexual, and class boundaries to create a practice of education that is a practice of freedom.

'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.Explore the power of an engaged pedagogy-teaching practices that generate excitement and build inclusive, communal classrooms. Teaching students to 'transgress' against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teachers most important goal. 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. 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. The book critiqued how education systems.

In this collection of essays, the focus is on the classroom and the power of education to transgress boundaries that often alienate students. In K-12 education, she is particularly remembered for a trifecta of books on teaching and learning, beginning with 1994’s Teaching to Transgress. 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.īell 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?įull 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. Teaching To Transgress Toolbox 1 is a two-year research and study programme, which focuses on critical pedagogy, using artistic tools based on peer-learning. Teaching to Transgresswas published in 1994 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group. 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 to transgress