Teaching to Transgress
Full Title
Author(s)
Centering Voices
Year of Publication
Media Type
Media Access
There is a no-cost, digitally inaccessible, copyright infringing PDF of the book available via a quick browser search. I will not link to it out of respect for the author.
Taylor & Francis have what looks to be a poor quality image-based PDF available by license. The experience of reading it using their proprietary e-reader is not great. Words are missing in what is read aloud by their tool and if you follow along visually the text is grainy. It is available at a cost as an audiobook by major retailers.
Reading Rooms
Usefulness to Educators
Hooks notion of engaged pedagogy builds on critical pedagogy of the oppressed theories by expressly discussing the politics of engaging with the non-normative bodies in the classroom. She she also talks about the radial notion of “well being” in the classroom. This text offers educators pedagogical pathways toward anti-racist and anti-oppressive learning environments. It is a foundational text for the pedagogical underpinnings of transformative digital accessibility praxis.
Premise
Teaching is caring for not only for the minds of students but for their souls. Education can be experienced as a practice of freedom when the learner’s whole self – their race, religion, ability/disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and lived experiences – can be drawn on and exercised in the classroom in conversation with the curriculum, to make sense of, or challenge the curriculum.
Purpose
To support educators to understand the power they have to choose anti-racist and anti-oppressive pedagogy.
Research Methods
- essay
- one chapter uses a creative writing approach similar to those used in transformative inquiry: hooks interviews herself
Conceptual or Theoretical Frameworks
- engaged pedagogy builds on Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed.
Reference with Published Abstract (when available)
Points of Connection
My copy of this book is old and very marked up. I don’t know where to begin. Forthcoming.
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