A review by mxunsmiley
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

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.