Teaching Community 1st Edition

This book by Bell Hooks is absolutely fantastic! She is great at using her personal narratives to convey the mentality of U.S. higher education faculty in a manner that encourages one to pursue professorial teaching as a privilege and purposeful development of students first before anything. Great read for anyone who plans/attends a college university.

She knows how to engage the reader and challenge us to rethink education, spirituality, and community. I recommend this book to anyone.

Want to dig further into Critical Ed? This is a great book to help you get your head around the concept and start to see how you can bring it to life.

So grateful for bell hooks writing and radical vision on teaching in every possible setting.

bell hooks understands the deep desires and longings of an educational community that we should all experience. An environment that cares about you, you future and the future of the community is what we need in this world.

'“No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice. Many of us made the choice in childhood.”-bell hooks, 2003, p. 53Racism is an issue that permeates society, and, as much as teachers may wish to make them so, our classrooms are not immune to the effects of such a society. In her book Teaching Community, bell hooks tells us that “To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination” (2003, p. 36). It is not enough to create classrooms in which we seek to avoid dominance, but rather we must create spaces in which to actively counteract questions of bias as they situate themselves within our environments.'read more at: [...]

I don't always agree with hooks but her view of teaching is spot on.

I really enjoyed it!