Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Hooks, Bell

ISBN 10: 0415908086 / ISBN 13: 9780415908085

Published by Routledge, New York, 1994

About this Item

SIGNED - Wrappers. Yellow spine and rear cover with author photo, yellow front cover with inset artwork are all clean and bright. Book has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the outside corners. Spine has been very faintly lightened by sun - lettering is all clear and easy to read and the difference is subtle enough that it would likely go unnoticed by someone who wasn't looking for it. Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author in black pen: "Wilfred! / to teaching that / transforms - / bell hooks." This book came from the collection of Wilfred D. Samuels, who was Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies and the former Director of the African American Studies program at the University of Utah. Binding is straight and tight. Previous owner has made some notes on the blank bottom half of the last page, but pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. 216 pages. Rare with the author's signature.

Seller Inventory # 012057

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
• Publisher: Routledge, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415908086
• ISBN 13: 9780415908085
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: No Additional Printings Noted.
• Condition: VG+
• Signed: Signed by the Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Nonfiction

About this title

Synopsis

"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 the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.

About the Author

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.