In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

Zusatztext "Positing education as the practice of freedom to balance against (or as an antidote to) the notion of education as credential-collecting!?Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom seeks to help engaged educators navigate the contradictions and challenges of the academy so as to fulfill our mandate to be of compassionate service to students-as whole people! not simply as someone's future employees." - Rain Taxi Informationen zum Autor bell hooks is a world-renowned intellectual, cultural critic, and writer who is also Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Kentucky. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West) Breaking Bread, the children's books Happy to Be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz, the memoir Bone Black and the general interest titles All About Love, Rock My Soul, and Communion. She has published seven titles with Routledge: Belonging, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. Klappentext In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. Zusammenfassung In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. critical thinking 2. democratic education 3. engaged pedagogy 4. decolonization 5. integrity 6. purpose 7. collaboration (written with Ron Scapp) 8. conversation 9. telling the story 10. sharing the story 11. imagination 12. to lecture or not 13. humor in the classroom 14. crying time 15. conflict 16. feminist revolution 17. black, female and academic 18. learning past the hate 19. honoring teachers 20. teachers against teaching 21. self-esteem 22. the joy of reading 23. intellectual life 24. writing books for children 25. spirituality 26. touch 27. to love again 28. feminist change 29. moving past race and gender 30. talking sex 31. teaching as prophetic vocation 32. practical wisdom ...

Autorentext

bell hooks is a world-renowned intellectual, cultural critic, and writer who is also Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Kentucky. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West) Breaking Bread, the children's books Happy to Be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz, the memoir Bone Black and the general interest titles All About Love, Rock My Soul, and Communion. She has published seven titles with Routledge: Belonging, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real.

Klappentext

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. critical thinking

2. democratic education

3. engaged pedagogy

4. decolonization

5. integrity

6. purpose

7. collaboration (written with Ron Scapp)

8. conversation

9. telling the story

10. sharing the story

11. imagination

12. to lecture or not

13. humor in the classroom

14. crying time

15. conflict

16. feminist revolution

17. black, female and academic

18. learning past the hate

19. honoring teachers

20. teachers against teaching

21. self-esteem

22. the joy of reading

23. intellectual life

24. writing books for children

25. spirituality

26. touch

27. to love again

28. feminist change

29. moving past race and gender

30. talking sex

31. teaching as prophetic vocation

32. practical wisdom