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Teaching Community bell hooks 9780415968188: : Books
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Teaching Community bell hooks 9780415968188: : Books
| Publisher : | Routledge; 1st edition (September 18, 2003) |
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| Language : | English |
| Paperback : | 216 pages |
| ISBN-10 : | 0415968186 |
| ISBN-13 : | 978-0415968188 |
| Item Weight : | 2.31 pounds |
| Dimensions : | 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #105 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) |
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| Customer Reviews: | 236 ratings |
MRS H V Warren –
Gift
For my niece! She loved it and was useful for her studies
Muniaj –
Good quality
Nice
Hope –
Tyvm
Love bell hooks
One person found this helpful
bi –
No complaints at all
Exactly as described
Tallulahconsuela –
Five Stars
Bell Hooks is an inspiration to anyone who wishes to work with children or young people
Goldilocks –
Five Stars
Another inspirational read from bell hooks.
A –
Not so much a pedagogy as an auto biography
Mostly personal anecdotes, autobiographical. Very much about the “why” education needs to be reformed(largely from race perspective) but nothing about the “how”. Interesting as manifesto but not as a useful pedagogy.
Unique McKibbens –
5.0 out of 5 stars
bell hooks is excellent
She knows how to engage the reader and challenge us to rethink education, spirituality, and community. I recommend this book to anyone.
Trellis Stepter –
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWesome
So grateful for bell hooks writing and radical vision on teaching in every possible setting.
2 people found this helpful
GoMiles –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truth
This book by Bell Hooks is absolutely fantastic! She is great at using her personal narratives to convey the mentality of U.S. higher education faculty in a manner that encourages one to pursue professorial teaching as a privilege and purposeful development of students first before anything. Great read for anyone who plans/attends a college university.
4 people found this helpful
tyjuanna –
5.0 out of 5 stars
bell hooks understands the deep desires and longings of an …
bell hooks understands the deep desires and longings of an educational community that we should all experience. An environment that cares about you, you future and the future of the community is what we need in this world.
5 people found this helpful
Soozie Bea –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it!
Want to dig further into Critical Ed? This is a great book to help you get your head around the concept and start to see how you can bring it to life.
2 people found this helpful
Jeff –
4.0 out of 5 stars
Teaching Community – bell hooks
‘“No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice. Many of us made the choice in childhood.”-bell hooks, 2003, p. 53Racism is an issue that permeates society, and, as much as teachers may wish to make them so, our classrooms are not immune to the effects of such a society. In her book Teaching Community, bell hooks tells us that “To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination” (2003, p. 36). It is not enough to create classrooms in which we seek to avoid dominance, but rather we must create spaces in which to actively counteract questions of bias as they situate themselves within our environments.’read more at: […]
4 people found this helpful
Sara M. Acevedo –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
I don’t always agree with hooks but her view of teaching is spot on.
2 people found this helpful
Ralph –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading
I really enjoyed it!
Frederick Darelle –
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is a troubling, radical book, as hooks …
This is a troubling, radical book, as hooks would probably have it. On second thought, she’d probably rather her ideas didn’t have to be put forth.
One person found this helpful
Rosedale Center –
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yes!
This came quickly and I’m very excited to use this for our staff trainings. The quality is perfect and I’m grateful I was able to get it.
Thursday Herdman –
1.0 out of 5 stars
Okay
Bell Hooks spent so much time referring to herself that I lost interest in whatever point she was trying to make. It is another self tongue bath with a cover. Friend needs to get to the point and stop writing ridiculously convoluted sentences that only serves to distract reasoned and ordered thought.
5 people found this helpful
Harvey Duke Barr Jr –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
Good condition, and great book
T. L. Jones –
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a book about teaching
This book is a platform for decrying racial and social injustice, but to say it is anything more than that is a misrepresentation.
4 people found this helpful
Foster Dickson –
4.0 out of 5 stars
A distant second to “Teaching to Transgress”
Though I really, really like “Teaching to Transgress”, I liked “Teaching Community.” The book has all of the strong insights we expect from bell hooks, and even a few surprises. (I admit that I was not prepared for her chapter on sexual relationships between teachers and students.) Her books aren’t for everybody, but for enlightened educators, they are wonderfully encouraging. This is a good book, but not as good as “Teaching to Transgress”.
3 people found this helpful
William J. Theisen –
1.0 out of 5 stars
bell hooks needs to figure out a solution, and reissue this
bell hooks is a talented, well-educated, assertive, and very hypocritical racist. I was hoping that each successive chapter would get a little bit better, and perhaps not include the expression “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” every time she refers to America, but unfortunately it gets worse with each chapter. As I read through the first five chapters, it would seem as though I, being a white male myself, owe Ms. hooks a huge apology for who I am. As it turns out, I was born this way. The lead singer of Nofx once sang “I’ll apologize for what I’ve done, but not for who I am.” hooks commentary on post 9/11 America was very telling. She claims that “everywhere you looked” one would see “white males with guns”. One might assume that bell hooks was at a Mississippi alligator farm, but no, she was talking about New York. I was also in New York at that time, and I didn’t see ANY white males with guns, besides police officers, and there were plenty of Black, Asian, and Indian officers with guns as well. What part of New York was she in that I didn’t see? She also claims that she refused to get her “TV news” from white males, citing that the reporting was “suspect”. This racial anxiety is characteristic of the most radical racists. Throughout these chapters, there was much talk of Black Studies, and White agendas. Consider this; a typical night for me involves sitting around with my girlfriend (Korean) her roommate (Vietnamese) his girlfriend (Irish) their roommate (Israeli) her boyfriend (African) the last roommate (African) and his girlfriend (European). Supposes we all get married and have kids, as we all very well might, having been together many years. What would bell hooks think about our very mixed children? What is an appropriate study to represent them? This ethnic mix is happening everywhere in America. These are our times. I love my Korean girlfriend very much, for reasons entirely unrelated to her ethnicity, and my friends share that sentiment, but if we were all walking past bell hooks, she would, unless she’s changed her judgemental, racist ideology, suspect that us white folks were only with the people of color to “spice” up our life with “exotica” as she testifies on page 33. I’ve never been so offended by an author that claims to endorse anti-racism. But I am pacified, somewhat, by this; bell hooks either suffers from severe amnesia, or her gross hypocrisy is actually nothing more than an ironic commentary that she doesn’t even believe in, she merely writes it to get a reaction. I actually laughed out loud when I read a perfect example of this hypocrisy on pages 26 and 27. In two adjacent paragraphes, she first criticizes white males that deny racism still exists, saying they have a lot of work to do to help the cause. In the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH, she criticizes white males who try to raise awareness about racism, claiming they are merely trying to gather academic merit for appearing well-informed, and concerned. Quite simply, she doesn’t want my help, but I should be ashamed for not helping. Well, this is one white male that will not deny racism exists. So far, this book is a beginners guide to becoming one.
39 people found this helpful
S. Lyttle –
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Read about Politics in Education
As to be expected, bell hooks uses direct language to talk about the deficiencies in American culture. What I liked about this book is the hopefulness that is possible to change and be an agent of change. She calls it like it is, which can offend some people. This book is a very good read for anyone interested in creating social justice in education.
7 people found this helpful
Tradecraft –
3.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe a pinch of salt and a shot of tequila.
I read the previous review before I read the book. I actually agreed with his take before I read it, except “Teaching Community” starts out mostly about the “Teaching Community”, meaning the struggles of being a professor.I think you have to take her opinions with a grain of salt. She was obviously burned out when she wrote this (as you can tell from chapter 2). A lot of the harsh words she uses to describe the environment in America are later explained in later chapters. You see “white supremacist” referred to often, but find out later she also applies it to black people. She is very obviously frustrated about university administrators and the lack of respect her particular discipline receives. Sounds like a lot of professors I’ve had, especially those teaching non-science and/or psychology.About the hypocrisy, she also states on page 29 that “In a culture of domination almost everyone engages in behaviors that contradict their beliefs and values.” I do get his point though. I’m african american, but I thought some of her statements on race were painful to read. There were some very negative presumptions of others which I found to be gross assumptions although they may have been true in her experience. “Have you ever had a black woman speak to you for thirty minutes” seemed a strange request.Yet, she is very intelligent and although I found this work to be a bit of personal and cathartic exercise for her it also provided many insights (though few solutions) on the student and teacher relationship. It also provided a few gems on serving others.If you could see through her issues with men and I’m sure the white faculty at her university, there were many truths on race.
23 people found this helpful
Amazon Customer –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars
Perfect condition!
S. A. Moore –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant.
Totally eye opening. Really makes you question yourself and strive to be better. Reassuring that change and progress is still possible. Truly an inspiration. I also recommend Killing Rage, by bell hooks.
5 people found this helpful
Jackie –
4.0 out of 5 stars
interesting, insightful read
I am reading this book for my Introduction to Feminisms class. So far, I have been enlightened by bell hooks’ thoughts and experiences as an African American teacher. She clearly and effectively explains her stance on race relations and white supremacy in the context of her life experiences.
8 people found this helpful