The book that would allow for this imaginary conversation is Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, a collection of essays that takes on these themes and others, but in a fluid narrative that speaks to the contemporary Brazilian educational reality.
Magine that a black female thinker, an intellectual and activist from the US with decades of experience in teaching at different institutions, rang your doorbell or paid a visit to your school, university, collective, restaurant… and began talking to you about the challenges and potencies inherent to the act of teaching as a practice of freedom, about the links between critical pedagogy and engaged buddhism, feminist thought, eroticism, sexuality, and social class clashes in the classroom, and any other topic that might come up in such a conversation? And if, beyond that, she spoke of tediousness in university classes, and of the need to cultivate the pleasure of teaching, with enthusiasm, as a pedagogical tool, among other themes, in a prose that navigates with fluency between informal and academic tones? That thinker is bell hooks, a prominent intellectual, thinker, and black feminist activist with more than 30 books published. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Ensinando a transgredir – a educação como prática da liberdade. “To educate as the practice of freedom,” writes bell hooks, “is a way of teaching that any one can learn.” Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher’s struggle to make classrooms work.An Engaged Pedagogy, Hand-in-Hand with the Practice of Freedom 1 hooks, bell. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise critical questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future o teaching its self. 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.īell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?įull of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings.
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom.
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