Teaching to Transgress

Education as the Practice of Freedom

Author: bell hooks

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Cultural theorist bell hooks “paints a picture of a classroom where education can transgress, evolve and transform those who learn and those who teach” in a tome first published more than 25 years ago but which is starkly relevant still today. Challenging us to rethink how we teach multiculturalism, it is “a celebration of teaching and learning that infuses new spirit into a radically ill social and educational soul.” Students must be taught to “transgress” against racial, sexual, and class boundaries, and hooks herself concludes, "To educate is the practice of freedom…(this) is a way of teaching anyone can learn."

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