The release date for the English version of 'Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom' by
bell hooks is Dec 1994. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Writer, educator, and rebellious Black thinker Bell Hooks discusses a new form of education in her book Teaching to Transgress: education as the practice of liberation. According to Hooks, the primary objective of a teacher is to enable pupils to "transgress" against limits related to race, sexuality, and class so as to attain the gift of freedom.
Bell Hooks addresses a fundamental question in contemporary education: how can we reconsider our methods of instruction in the face of multiculturalism? What should we do about students who are unwilling to learn and professors who are unwilling to teach? In what ways should racism and sexism be addressed in the classroom?
Teaching to Transgress is a political and passionate book that blends real-world classroom experience with a profound understanding of the emotional realm. This is one of the few books about educators and learners that has the guts to address difficult issues such as love and wrath, loss and healing, and the future of education itself.
"To educate as the practice of freedom," says bell hooks, "is a way of teaching that any one can learn." In Teaching to Transgress, a bright teacher chronicles her struggles to create a productive classroom environment.
–from the book's rear