Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom
hooks, bell, 1952-20212010
Book
In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning. Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.
Main title:
Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom / Bell Hooks.
Author:
hooks, bell, 1952-2021, author
Imprint:
New York : Routledge, 2010.©2010
Collation:
x, 191 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
"Bell Hooks The teaching trilogy."Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction1. Critical Thinking2. Democratic Education3. Engaged Pedagogy4. Decolonization5. Integrity6. Purpose7. Collaboration8. Conversation9. Telling the Story10. Sharing the Story11. Imagination12. To Lecture or Not13. Humor in the Classroom14. Crying Time15. Conflict16. Feminist Revolution17. Black, Female, and Academic18. Learning Past the hate19. Honoring Teachers20. Teachers against Teaching21. Self-Esteem22. The Joy of Reading23. Intellectual Life24. Writing Books for Children25. Spirituality26. Touch27. To Love Again28. Feminist Change29. Moving Past Race and Gender30. Talking Sex31. Teaching as Prophetic Vocation32. Practical Wisdom.
ISBN:
9780415968201 (paperback)9780415968195 (hardback)
Dewey class:
370.152
LC class:
LB1025.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
12977
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Society | SOCIETY 370.152 HOOK | On loan - Due: 07 Jul 2026 |
| North Melbourne Library | -Society | SOCIETY 370.152 HOOK | On loan - Due: 14 Jul 2026 |