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Teaching to Transgress

Yvonne Payne, EDS 373

bell hooks

INTRO

bell hooks, pseudonym of Gloria Jean Watkins, is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. She grew up in the rural, segregated South and is well known for her conceptualization of intersectionality, particularly in considering feminism. She has been in the education profession for over twenty years. Please review this amazing article, How bell hooks Paved the Way for Intersectional Feminism, about her work and ideas!

https://www.them.us/story/bell-hooks

Education as the Practice of Freedom

Purpose

hooks was inspired by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and his ideas about critical pedagogy. She offers an experience for educators to consider a revolutionary way of thinking about education.

Principles

Foundations

  • Engaged Pedagogy--we all have a responsibility to be active participants in our educational experiences and educators need to ensure students are supported in truly being active participants (consider power dynamics in the classroom)
  • Praxis--"action and reflection upon the world in order to change it"(14)
  • Intersectionality--specificity of identities and how those identities may or may not hold certain privileges (material and immaterial)
  • Theory as Liberatory Practice--tension between perceptions and accessibilty of theory and the need for theory to be translated into practice

Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and concepts of engaged pedagogy and praxis

STRUCTURE

A Collection of Essays

Her use of structure reinforces her beliefs about engaged pedagogy, reflection, personal narratives, embracing the struggle, and respecting the process of theory into practice.

bell hooks intentionally structured the piece as a collection of essays to make the material accessible to a variety of readers. This directly exhibits her ideas about the tension between theory and practice (sometimes the language of theory is used to separate and perpetuate inequalities in class, race, and gender). She includes nontraditional elements of structure, to include a chapter which is strictly dialgoue between herself and her writing voice, a chapter which is dialogue between herself and a colleague, and an intentionally blank page to construe a thoeretical idea for the audience.

Essays that resonated with me:

3. Embracing Change

7. Holding My Sister's Hand

11. Language

Structure Breakdown

  • Introduction
  • Engaged Pedagogy
  • A Revolution of Values (The Promise of Multicultural Change)
  • Embracing Change (Teaching in a Multicultural World)
  • Paulo Freire
  • Theory as Liberatory Practice
  • Essentialism and Experience
  • Holding My Sister's Hand (Feminist Solidarity)
  • Feminist Thinking (In the Classroom Right Now)
  • Feminist Scholarship (Black Scholars)
  • Building a Teaching Community (A Dialogue)
  • Language (Teaching New Worlds/New Words)
  • Confronting Class in the Classroom
  • Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process
  • Ectasy (Teaching and Learning Without Limits)
  • Index

TRANSLATION TO THE CLASSROOM

TAKEAWAYS

READING REACTIONS

  • Include frequent opportunities for personal narratives (integrate into curriculum)
  • Consider the element of body and space (walk around the classroom, informs attitude taken towards teaching)
  • Consistently reflect on teaching practices (incorporate daily/weekly reflection time into planning period)

SPECIFIC METHODS

METHODS (CONT'D)

  • Recognize and address low energy/change in mood in the classroom environment
  • Make personal and collective expectations clear about the labor of learning and personal responsibility to contribute to the classroom community
  • Foster respectful listening and critical discussion
  • Discuss intersectionality as a component of each character analysis

Every educator should read this book.

REVIEW

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