Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

P"After reading EMTeaching to Transgress/EM I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." STRONG-- Paulo Freire/STRONG/P PIn EMSTRONGTeaching to Transgress/STRONG,/EMbell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, EMeducation as the practice of freedom/EM.  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./P Pbell hooks speakes 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?/P PFull of passion and politics, STRONGEMTeaching to Transgress /EM/STRONGcombines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings.  This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself./P P"To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." STRONGEMTeaching to Transgress /EM/STRONGis theSTRONGEM /EM/STRONGrecord of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work./P