bell hooks Feminist Pedagogy in the Library Classroom
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Engaged Pedagogy and Journaling: A Pathway to Self-Transformation
Journaling, a reflective teaching activity, is an approach for engaged learning that allows students to find one’s voice, reexamine one’s identity, and create a deeper understanding of self, identity, and agency. Central to bell hooks’ feminist pedagogy is engaged teaching and learning, a pathway that allows learner and teacher to actively question...
‘Reading the Cultural Landscape’ in the ‘Birthplace’ of Modern Race/Racism: Using hooks to Invite Students in as Critica...
Ungrading as Feminist Praxis
How I Learned to Love Teaching: bell hooks and the Possibilities of the Feminist Classroom
In this critical commentary, I describe the influence bell hooks has had on my pedagogy since first reading her book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, when I was a graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies in the 1990s. The profound influence hooks’ work had on me, as a first generation, woman of color scholar from...
Academic Spaces of Possibility? A Proleptic Dialogue with BlackFeminism at the Center
This critical commentary engages our experiences as co-educators in a “Black Feminist Thought and Expression” (BFTE) course, first-of-its-kind at our predominantly white institution in the U.S.. We imagine and provoke redefinitions of “classrooms” and “students” toward the liberatory dialogic learning bell hooks continues to inspire. We reflect on ...
Playing with Privilege: A Creative Way for Students to Unpack Privilege
Although privilege is a foundational concept in many courses, students often have only a vague notion of it, which hinders discussion and analysis. This activity/assignment, grounded in bell hooks' engaged pedagogy, tasks students with visually representing and explaining a concrete instance of privilege to their peers. Through creating comic strip...
Black Feminist Pedagogy In White Southern Spaces
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks situates the classroom as “the most radical space of opportunity in academia” (hooks 1994,), as it is within this space that we might challenge and transcend ways of knowing centered in patriarchy, sexism and racism. But what happens when the classroom is located in spaces loyal to the historical frameworks tha...
Editor's Introduction: Honoring the Immeasurable: bell hooks’ Feminist Pedagogy in Teaching
