{"product_id":"teaching-to-transgress-9780415908085","title":"Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"After reading \u003cem\u003eTeaching to Transgress\u003c\/em\u003e I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-- Paulo Freire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeaching to Transgress\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ebell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, \u003cem\u003eeducation as the practice of freedom\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebell 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of passion and politics, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching to Transgress \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ecombines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To educate is the practice of freedom,\" writes bell hooks, \"is a way of teaching anyone can learn.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching to Transgress \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis the\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003erecord of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebell hooks\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and critic who has taught most recently at Berea College in Kentucky, where she is Distinguished Professor in Residence. Among her many books are the feminist classic \u003cem\u003eAin't I A Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, the dialogue (with Cornel West) \u003cem\u003eBreaking Bread\u003c\/em\u003e, the children's books \u003cem\u003eHappy to Be Nappy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBe Boy Buzz, \u003c\/em\u003e the memoir \u003cem\u003eBone Black\u003c\/em\u003e (Holt), and the general interest titles \u003cem\u003eAll About Love, Rock My Soul\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e. Her many books published with Routledge include \u003cem\u003eTeaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBelonging: A Culture of Place\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhere We Stand: Class Matters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606858240274,"sku":"9780415908085","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d4bb798d-96aa-462f-b8be-8c436f0a1688.jpg?v=1732300650","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/teaching-to-transgress-9780415908085","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}