bell hooks · Politics

Engaged Pedagogy: Education as the Practice of Freedom

In <em>Teaching to Transgress</em> (1994), hooks reimagined education as the practice of freedom: a classroom where teacher and student meet as whole people, where learning is shared and alive, and where the aim is not to fill students with facts but to help them become free.

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You learned that hooks&rsquo;s engaged pedagogy (from Teaching to Transgress ) treats education as the practice of freedom: rejecting the &lsquo;banking&rsquo; model of passive students, insisting that teacher and student are whole persons whose wellbeing matters, and making the classroom a space of critical, liberato…

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