Preface: Teaching and Living in Hope
1. The Will to Learn: The World as Classroom
2. Time Out: Classrooms without Boundaries
3. Talking Race and Racism
4. Democratic Education
5. What Happens When White People Change
6. Standards
7. How Can We Serve
8. Moving beyond Shame
9. Keepers of Hope: Teaching in Communities
10. Progressive Learning: A Family Value
11. Heart to Heart: Teaching with Love
12. Good Sex: Passionate Pedagogy
13. Spirituality in Education
14. This Is Our Life: Teaching toward Death
15. Spiritual Matters in the Classroom
16. Practical Wisdom
bell hooks 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 Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West) Breaking Bread, the children's books Happy to Be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz, the memoir Bone Black (Holt), and the general interest titles All About Love, Rock My Soul, and Communion. Her many books published with Routledge include Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom,Belonging: A Culture of Place, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, Where We Stand: Class Matters, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, and Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies.
"Fans of hooks's earlier works, especially the landmark Teaching To
Transgress, will welcome this new collection of essays on combating
racism and sexism in education. Drawing extensively on her personal
experiences as both student and teacher, hooks articulates a vision
of democratic, progressive education that focuses on the classroom
as a 'life-sustaining and mind-expanding' place. As with her
previous books, her latest is passionate, opinionated, and
challenging. While her statement that a '[commitment] to teaching
well is a commitment to service' will attract some, her claims that
racism, sexism, and class conflict are driving forces in the
curriculum and in relations between teachers and students will
unsettle many. Despite its challenging nature (or, more likely,
because of it), the collection will interest students of education,
ethnic and cultural studies, and women's studies." -- Library
Journal"Refreshingly original thinking about spirituality, family
values, and even erotic relationships between professors and
students...The author's clear and consistent voice for progressive,
democratic education adds an important dimension to society's
thinking about shared values and the creation of a loving and fair
community." -- Publishers Weekly"Teaching Community is magnificent.
Educators, learners, and intellectuals will find the book to be an
eye opening piece of work. [hook's] mastery of language, as it
always does, creates a highly stimulating space from which readers
can learn and actively participate in the analytical process.
Black, white, male, female, teacher, and student should read the
book for themselves and for the beloved community." -- Rolling
Out"hooks addresses many other topics of keen interest to all
educators at various stages of their careers." -- Rosemary P.
Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Teaching Theology and
Religion
"Fans of hooks's earlier works, especially the landmark Teaching To
Transgress, will welcome this new collection of essays on combating
racism and sexism in education. Drawing extensively on her personal
experiences as both student and teacher, hooks articulates a vision
of democratic, progressive education that focuses on the classroom
as a 'life-sustaining and mind-expanding' place. As with her
previous books, her latest is passionate, opinionated, and
challenging. While her statement that a '[commitment] to teaching
well is a commitment to service' will attract some, her claims that
racism, sexism, and class conflict are driving forces in the
curriculum and in relations between teachers and students will
unsettle many. Despite its challenging nature (or, more likely,
because of it), the collection will interest students of education,
ethnic and cultural studies, and women's studies." -- Library
Journal"Refreshingly original thinking about spirituality, family
values, and even erotic relationships between professors and
students...The author's clear and consistent voice for progressive,
democratic education adds an important dimension to society's
thinking about shared values and the creation of a loving and fair
community." -- Publishers Weekly"Teaching Community is magnificent.
Educators, learners, and intellectuals will find the book to be an
eye opening piece of work. [hook's] mastery of language, as it
always does, creates a highly stimulating space from which readers
can learn and actively participate in the analytical process.
Black, white, male, female, teacher, and student should read the
book for themselves and for the beloved community." -- Rolling Out
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