(P/B) TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING

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In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning.
Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today. (From the publisher)

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Introduction
Critical thinking
Democratic education
Engaged education
Decolonization
Integrity
Purpose
Collaboration
Conversation
Telling the story
Sharing the story
Imagination
To lecture or not
Humor in the classroom
Crying time
Conflict
Feminist revolution
Black, female, and academic
Learning past the hate
Honoring teachers
Teachers against teaching
Self-esteem
The joy of reading
Intellectual life
Writing books for children
Spirituality
Touch
To love again
Feminist change
Moving past race ad gender
Talking sexTeaching as prophetic vocation
Practical wisdom
Index