Teaching to Transgress, by bell hooks

Book picture Teaching to Transgress

Are you wondering if your classroom practices unwittingly support, as hooks states, “White supremacist capitalist patriarchy?” Would you like to challenge essentialist notions that you have been taught are good but that are really just perpetuating capitalist white supremacy and instead engage teaching to transgress? Are you ready to confront your own teaching practices and consider new ways to make your classroom more inclusive? Come read and discuss bell hooks’ foundational work Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom with facilitators Christina Sciabarra and José Aparicio. See how hooks “celebrates teaching that enables transgressions- a movement against and beyond boundaries… which makes education the practice of freedom.” Come read about engaged pedagogy and teaching with fun and love.

This book club will focus on understanding and applying hooks’ work to our own teaching through reading, reflection, and discussion in a supportive community environment. Participants will be encouraged to submit a final project which reflects on what they have learned from hooks and how they can apply it in their own teaching practice.

Mondays – January 25, February 8, 22, March 8, 1:30 – 3 p.m.

12 PD hours | $200 stipend for attending a minimum of 3 of the 4 meeting sessions and completing a reflective yet action-oriented project.

This book club is full. Waitlist registration. 

3 books are available to borrow at the Faculty Commons

Contact Christina Sciabarra, Social Science, or José Aparicio, English, for more information.

 

Last Updated March 8, 2023