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This book really helped me understand a lot of ideas in a new light. It certainly encourages me to rethink my teaching practice, which is an important part of keeping teaching fresh. bell hooks also challenges us all to move away from systems of domination in the classroom, which are all too easy to slip into if we are not diligent.

jill_kieran's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

mxunsmiley's review against another edition

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5.0

hooks approaches radical and engaged pedagogy with close attention to race, gender, and class in a way that has truly inspired me in my future goals of teaching. I especially loved what she had to say about the teacher/student relationship and referring it to Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, another book on pedagogy I love. I also enjoyed her analysis of identity politics in the classroom, neither condemning or condoning but rather rationalizing them. What hooks has to say about engaged pedagogy is truly enlightening and inspiring for aspiring teachers.

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4.25

A 5 in spirit.
This book brims with much depthful insight. So deeply affirming in so many ways.
It is something special to live in a world and a time where such richness is allowed to rest in our culture and in our archives, in our collective hearth.
The latter half lost me, but I think my difficulty has more to do with personal prose preference and my own burgeoning ebbs and flows, because ultimately I have no doubt these sentiments are crucial, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Thank you miz hooks.
Thank you.

cully9's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

djreads's review

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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