Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

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.

status Copy #1 (4567): in
genre Utopian Studies » Education
publisher Routledge
publish date 1994
popularity checked out 2 time(s)

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