Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

184 Pages·2009·0.52 MB·English

by  bell hooks

Teaching
Critical Thinking
bell hooks
the teaching trilogy:
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
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Teaching
Critical Thinking
Practical Wisdom
bell hooks
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hooks, Bell.
Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom / Bell Hooks.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Teaching. 2. Critical thinking. 3. Democracy and good governance. I. Title.
LB1025.3.H67 2009
370.15’2--dc22
2009016079
ISBN10: 0-415-96819-4 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-96820-8 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-86919-2 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-96819-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-96820-1 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-86919-2 (ebk)
“Human existence, because it came into being through
asking questions, is at the root of change in the world. There
is a radical element to existence, which is the radical act of
asking questions… At root human existence involves surprise,
questioning and risk. And because of all this, it involves actions
and change.”
—Paulo Freire
Learning to Question:
A Pedagogy of Liberation
Contents
Introduction 1
Teaching 1 Critical Thinking 7
Teaching 2 Democratic Education 13
Teaching 3 Engaged Pedagogy 19
Teaching 4 Decolonization 23
Teaching 5 Integrity 29
Teaching 6 Purpose 33
vii
viii Contents
Teaching 7 Collaboration 37
(written with Ron Scapp)
Teaching 8 Conversation 43
Teaching 9 Telling the Story 49
Teaching 10 Sharing the Story 55
Teaching 11 Imagination 59
Teaching 12 To Lecture or Not 63
Teaching 13 Humor in the Classroom 69
Teaching 14 Crying Time 77
Teaching 15 Confl ict 85
Teaching 16 Feminist Revolution 91
Teaching 17 Black, Female, and Academic 95
Teaching 18 Learning Past the Hate 103
Contents ix
Teaching 19 Honoring Teachers 111
Teaching 20 Teachers against Teaching 117
Teaching 21 Self-Esteem 121
Teaching 22 The Joy of Reading 127
Teaching 23 Intellectual Life 135
Teaching 24 Writing Books for Children 141
Teaching 25 Spirituality 147
Teaching 26 Touch 153
Teaching 27 To Love Again 159
Teaching 28 Feminist Change 165
Teaching 29 Moving Past Race and Gender 169
Teaching 30 Talking Sex 177
x Contents
Teaching 31 Teaching as Prophetic Vocation 181
Teaching 32 Practical Wisdom 185
Index 189