bell hooks & Paulo Freire: A Critique of Transgressive Teaching & Critical Pedagogy

bell hooks and Paulo Freire epitomize the best that progressive pedagogy and politics have to offer to educators. Their work lays a foundation for progressive educators to apply in their classrooms at every level of education.

This book critiques their most important pedagogical texts, such as hooks' Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community and Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy in Process in order to contextualize them into the various educational settings that confront educators everyday.

This book provides a solid foundation in the pedagogical methods, theories, and practices of bell hooks and Paulo Freire and serves as a guide for all educators who aim to teach to transgress and practice critical pedagogy in their classrooms!

It also presents ways in which educators can apply transgressive teaching and critical pedagogy in their classrooms by examining the teaching of policing, competition, individualism, hard work, capitalism, classism, and communication.

This book is a must read for critical educators everywhere who aim to understand and apply the pedagogical ideas of bell hooks and Paulo Freire!