About the Book: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
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