Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom / Bell Hooks.

Author/creator hooks, bell
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2010.
Descriptionx, 191 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- 1. Critical Thinking -- 2. Democratic Education -- 3. Engaged Pedagogy -- 4. Decolonization -- 5. Integrity -- 6. Purpose -- 7. Collaboration -- 8. Conversation -- 9. Telling the Story -- 10. Sharing the Story -- 11. Imagination -- 12. To Lecture or Not -- 13. Humor in the Classroom -- 14. Crying Time -- 15. Conflict -- 16. Feminist Revolution -- 17. Black, Female, and Academic -- 18. Learning Past the hate -- 19. Honoring Teachers -- 20. Teachers against Teaching -- 21. Self-Esteem -- 22. The Joy of Reading -- 23. Intellectual Life -- 24. Writing Books for Children -- 25. Spirituality -- 26. Touch -- 27. To Love Again -- 28. Feminist Change -- 29. Moving Past Race and Gender -- 30. Talking Sex -- 31. Teaching as Prophetic Vocation -- 32. Practical Wisdom -- Index
General note"Bell Hooks The teaching trilogy."
General noteAddressing 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. --from publisher description
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2009016079
ISBN9780415968195 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415968194 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415968201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0415968208 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780203869192 (e-book)
ISBN0203869192 (e-book)

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Joyner General Stacks LB1025.3 .H67 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold