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A review by lizshayne
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
This book is actually 6 stars, I just ran out of stars.
Also, audiobook read by Robin Miles, who I adore, but I almost didn't care that I loved the narrator because the book itself was beautiful.
I wish I'd read this when I started teaching. hooks speaks so much to both the fears and joys of teaching; her understanding of liberatory pedagogy and what it means to get beyond the authority who conveys knowledge is one of those "YES" moments. Where even when I know these things and have seen my teachers use a more engaged pedagogy in their classroom, I've needed the words for it and, more than anything else, needed someone to articulate the thoughtfulness of the ideas behind the why.
Also, when she quotes Paulo Friere: "We cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become subjects" and talks through wrestling with it. (The context was not teaching Niddah, but now that I think about it...)
So much to chew on and adding this to my list of "stop reading authors because they just died and discovering how good they were and then mourning them all over again".
It's like 50/50 whether it's better to appreciate the author while they lived and then be sad when they die or to not know enough and then discover them in their literary afterlife.
Thank God for the writings that allow the greats to live on long after their deaths.
Also, audiobook read by Robin Miles, who I adore, but I almost didn't care that I loved the narrator because the book itself was beautiful.
I wish I'd read this when I started teaching. hooks speaks so much to both the fears and joys of teaching; her understanding of liberatory pedagogy and what it means to get beyond the authority who conveys knowledge is one of those "YES" moments. Where even when I know these things and have seen my teachers use a more engaged pedagogy in their classroom, I've needed the words for it and, more than anything else, needed someone to articulate the thoughtfulness of the ideas behind the why.
Also, when she quotes Paulo Friere: "We cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become subjects" and talks through wrestling with it. (The context was not teaching Niddah, but now that I think about it...)
So much to chew on and adding this to my list of "stop reading authors because they just died and discovering how good they were and then mourning them all over again".
It's like 50/50 whether it's better to appreciate the author while they lived and then be sad when they die or to not know enough and then discover them in their literary afterlife.
Thank God for the writings that allow the greats to live on long after their deaths.