Bell Hooks: Engaged Pedagogy - Engagedpedagogy.
In Teaching To Transgress, bell hooks not just emphasizes on soul, spirit, and emotional and personal histories but positions them as a valid route to transgress the prevalent hegemonies.Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom hooks, bell In this book, Bell Hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, shares her philosophy of the classroom, offering ideas about teaching that fundamentally rethink democratic participation.In Teaching to Transgress, she writes, To learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone, Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be.
In this book, Bell Hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, shares her philosophy of the classroom, offering ideas about teaching that fundamentally rethink democratic participation. Hooks advocates the process of teaching students to think critically and raises many concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy, linking them to feminist thought.In her book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Bell Hooks depicts the classroom as a source of constraint on one hand but, also as a source of liberation on the other (hand). She points out that teachers’ use of power and control makes students lose interest in a subject or topic.
Intro: Teaching to Transgress bell hooks ushers the reader into her collection of essays with a description of the various pedagogies that informed her own education. First, she presents us with the exciting, enlivened learning environment which she experienced as a young girl in an all-black school.
