Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Summary
Bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Summary

One main tenet of the book is contained in the title: the use of education as the intentional activity of empowering and of using freedom. The book comes from the viewpoint of an African-American woman from the South. She experienced both racially segregated and desegregated schooling. She found that the political and social agenda of her black instructors better suited her than the conditions in the integrated environment. She notes that...

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