bell hooks’s Radical Pedagogy
New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom
Joanna Davis-McElligatt editor Maia L Butler editor Megan Feifer editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:18th Sep '25
£65.00
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A collection of teachings and reflections that address the full scope of bell hooks’ work on pedagogy
Throughout hooks' powerful life she envisioned, described, and enacted a radical, engaged pedagogy and praxis rooted in love, rather than power, while simultaneously modeling transgressive modes of being in the world. bell hooks’ Radical Pedagogy is the first sustained collection of teachings and reflections that address the full scope of bell hooks’ teaching trilogy.
Organized into four parts covering: engaged pedagogies; pedagogies of hope and joy; pedagogies of the bodymindspirit; strategies of resistance and anticolonial frameworks, the book offers an accessible guide to hooks' work for students, teachers and researchers. The chapters examine how hooks’ pedagogical framework resists antiblack, imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, abled, and cisheteronormative patriarchal pedagogical praxes, while simultaneously calling for a deep and sustained commitment to the work of “educat[ing] people to heal this world into what it might become.” The book brings together the work of educators who are making visionary interventions in their fields of study and in their local and regional communities. They include scholars and teachers affiliated with universities, schools across k-12 levels as well as community education cooperatives. The book includes a foreword by the feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spellman College, USA).
This deep engagement of the expansive, exacting and dissident work of bell hooks is diverse, exciting, thorough, and woven through with love. This is how we teach each other freedom. -- adrienne maree brown, Author of "Emergent Strategy", "Pleasure Activism", "Octavia's Brood" and "Loving Corrections"
I was blessed to participate and collaborate with bell hooks in all three of her ground-breaking books on education. And, now I am blessed again to have this important and wonderful anthology to guide and provoke me. The essays in bell hooks's Radical Pedagogy are thoughtful, rigorous and engaging. They not only pay tribute to bell hooks and her legacy, they inspire us to reexam and reconsider our work as teachers and advocates of embracing and affirming "education as the practice of freedom." Reading bell hooks's Radical Pedagogy is to engage in the very critical project initiated by bell hooks. The editors and contributors have produced an outstanding example of bell hooks' "engaged" pedagogy and scholarship. This is a book that should be read by every stakeholder involved in education today. -- Ron Scapp, author of "Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics and Culture"
This is a fabulous collection of conversations with bell about her notion/s of pedagogy. For bell pedagogy was a life practice, with no borders, and is not contained in a classroom. Learning, experimenting, listening, wondering, imagining and then acting on this knowledge was life's activity. For bell the personal was political and public and so was her commitment to finding and creating the theoretical frames for action. The writers here will assist you in seeing the revolutionary practice that nurtured bell's brilliance. -- Zillah Eisenstein, Author, Activist, Professor Emerita of Anti-Racist Feminist Theory, Ithaca College, USA
ISBN: 9781350441583
Dimensions: 234mm x 164mm x 24mm
Weight: 1200g
296 pages