Bell Hooks' Engaged Pedagogy: A Transgressive Education for Critical Consciousness

By Namulundah Florence

Book Overview

This work lucidates bell hooks' social and educational theory, with emphasis on her 1994 book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Florence deals with the issues of marginality and cultural alienation that are so prevalent among certain groups within the American society and presents strategies to help develop critical consciousness and affirmation of formerly subordinated cultural traits and characteristics. Her study resonates with current themes raised by critical, feminist and multicultural scholars showing how marginalized groups may be guilty of reinforcing their own status through complicity with the dominant culture's world view, and how education can empower them to demand a more egalitarian society and one that recognizes cultural plurality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895657
• ISBN13: 9780897895651
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Informative & Comprehensive

No one book can cover all of bell hooks' work, but Florence made sense as she introduced and analysed hooks' work/theory behind education. Florence's work was clear and objective allowing the reader to form his or her opinion about pedagogy and hooks' view on teaching, race, and class in America.