Teaching Community

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. In Teaching Community bell hooks seeks to theorize from the place of the positive, looking at what works. Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society -- can be a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. "When teachers teach with love, combining care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust, we are often able to enter the classroom and go straight to the heart of the matter, which is knowing what to do on any given day to create the best climate for learning."

Excerpts taken from www.routledge.com/p/book/9780415968188