Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

by hooks,bell

• ISBN13: 9780415968171
• ISBN10: 0415968178
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers withTeaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comesTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope- a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning. bell hooks writes candidly about her own experiences. Teaching, she explains, can happen anywhere, any time - not just in college classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes where people get together to share ideas that affect their daily lives. InTeaching Communitybell hooks seeks to theorize from the place of the positive, looking at what works. Writing about struggles to end racism and white supremacy, she makes the useful point that "No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice."Teaching Communitytells us how wecan choose to end racism and create a beloved community. hooks looks at many issues-among them, spirituality in the classroom, white people looking to end racism, and erotic relationships between professors and students. Spirit, struggle, service, love, the ideals of shared knowledge and shared learning - these values motivate progressive social change. Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society -- can be a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. "When teachers teach with love, combining care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust, we are often able to enter the classroom and go straight to the heart of the matter, which is knowing what to do on any given day to create the best climate for learning."

Author Biography

Bell Hooks is the author of more than twenty books for adults and for children

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Teaching and Living in Hope
Teach 1 The Will to Learn	1	(12)
The World as Classroom
Teach 2 Time Out	13	(12)
Classrooms without Boundaries
Teach 3 Talking Race and Racism	25	(16)
Teach 4 Democratic Education	41	(10)
Teach 5 What Happens When White People Change	51	(16)
Teach 6 Standards	67	(16)
Teach 7 How Can We Serve	83	(10)
Teach 8 Moving beyond Shame	93	(12)
Teach 9 Keepers of Hope	105	(12)
Teaching in Communities
Teach 10 Progressive Learning	117	(10)
A Family Value
Teach 11 Heart to Heart	127	(12)
Teaching with Love
Teach 12 Good Sex	139	(18)
Passionate Pedagogy
Teach 13 Spirituality in Education	157	(8)
Teach 14 This Is Our Life	165	(10)
Teaching toward Death
Teach 15 Spiritual Matters in the Classroom	175	(10)
Teach 16 Practical Wisdom	185	(14)
Index	199