bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom: Radical Spaces of Possibility(Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century)

bell hooks—feminist scholar, teacher, activist—implored instructors to see the classroom as a “radical space of possibility” where students and teachers work as partners in the pursuit of education as “collective liberation” from structures of domination. hooks’ call takes on more urgency today, as oppressive and dominant ideologies continue to perpetuate racial, economic, gender, and other social inequities both within the classroom and society at large. Through critical commentary reflections on classroom experiences and original teaching activities, the authors in bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom: Radical Spaces of Possibility provide inspiration for teachers with the will to learn and the courage to teach about intersecting systems of oppression in meaningful, radical ways. The goal of this collection is to carry forth hooks’ legacy of education as freedom and to serve as a guide that renews faith that “teaching to transgress” racist, sexist, and classist systems of oppression is not only possible, but is a first step in transforming the world.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Preface: Love as a Transformative Force, Kristin Comeforo and Mala L. Matacin Introduction: Naming our Practice: Honoring bell hooks' Pedagogical Legacy, Kristin Comeforo Section I: The Courage to Transgress/Renewing our Minds Chapter One: Teaching to Transgress Across Cultures: Reflections From a Black Male Educator of Latinx Students and a Latinx Female Educator of Black Students, Alejandra Torres and Marcel Williams Chapter Two: A Multivocal Faculty-Student Exploration of bell hooks, Teaching, and Mentorship, Leandra Hernández, Stevie M. Munz, Agustin (Tino) Diaz, Elizabeht Hernandez and Duxiana Ruiz Chapter Three: Learning From hooks' Yearning: Becoming a Feminist Academic in a Neoliberal Campus, Siti Muflichah Chapter Four: Picturing Possibility: Photovoice as Liberatory Pedagogy, Mala L. Matacin Chapter Five: Extending Embodiment: bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy in the Virtual Postsecondary Classroom, Sydney Curtis and Amy M. Wilkinson Section II: The Courage to Teach/Activities as

About the Author :
Kristin Comeforo is associate professor and graduate program director in the School of Communication at the University of Hartford. Mala L. Matacin is associate professor, associate chair, and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hartford.

Review :
bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom is at once a loving gift to the legacy and import of one of our greatest thinkers and educators, and at the same time it is a compassionate—yet rigorous—meditation on how we might create radical spaces of pedagogical possibility. This is a book for teachers and for students, a book for those educating and being educated. Which is, in the end, all of us, all the time. As hooks has taught us, this book names, it loves, it transgresses. And we need it all.