About the Book: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress:
Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy
of Hope-a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives.
Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives,
hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and
nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning. bell
hooks writes candidly about her own experiences. Teaching, she explains, can
happen anywhere, any time-not just in college classrooms but in churches, in
bookstores, in homes where people get together to share ideas