Diversity Book Report Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom bell hooks Jeff Herr EDU Diversity Frameworks June 23, 2012

Transgress- to go beyond, to exceed established limits Revolutionary engagement Feminist thinking Community building Language and class tolerance

Revolutionary engagement Buzz words: personal liberation diverse lifestyle climate of free expression students’ natural experiences

Feminist thinking Racism does not exempt Black women from collectively participating in efforts to communicate, exchange ideas, and debate. Students as a whole are currently skeptical about the importance of feminist thinking and movements.

Community building Critical thinkers must work together through pedagogical practices. - create new multicultural languages -decentralize authority -rewrite policies

Language and class -Standard English is the language of conquest and domination. -The U.S. has extinguished the fires of many native tongues. -The oppressors language is essential: use it to communicate a revolutionary message, reinvent it as a new cultural creation. -Nonconformist intellectuals promote freedom through researching and publishing.

Critique - revolutionary theories implemented in own classrooms - little support through triangulation - I re-evaluated my own beliefs

Recommendations Is a rewrite needed to help the book remain timely and relevant? new ideas about feminism? creativity of hip-hop vocals? techno advances and class action?

Correlations Western, modernist biases Vernacular talk should be embraced Current teaching is aligned for capitalism

References hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York, NY: Routledge.