Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to
Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work
that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical
thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks
invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and
nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of
learning. bell hooks writes candidly about her own experiences.
Teaching, she explains, can happen anywhere, any time - not just in
college classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes where
people get together to share ideas that affect their daily lives.
In Teaching Community bell hooks seeks to theorize from the place
of the positive, looking at what works. Writing about struggles to
end racism and white supremacy, she makes the useful point that "No
one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice." Teaching Community
tells us how we can choose to end racism and create a beloved
community. hooks looks at many issues-among them, spirituality in
the classroom, white people looking to end racism, and erotic
relationships between professors and students. Spirit, struggle,
service, love, the ideals of shared knowledge and shared learning -
these values motivate progressive social change. Teachers of vision
know that democratic education can never be confined to a
classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society -- can be
a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. "When
teachers teach with love, combining care, commitment, knowledge,
responsibility, respect, and trust, we are often able to enter the
classroom and go straight to the heart of the matter, which is
knowing what to do on any given day to create the best climate for
learning."
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