Praeger bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy: A Transgressive Education for Critical Consciousness (Critical Studies in Education and Culture)

This work lucidates bell hooks' social and educational theory, with emphasis on her 1994 book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Florence deals with the issues of marginality and cultural alienation that are so prevalent among certain groups within the American society and presents strategies to help develop critical consciousness and affirmation of formerly subordinated cultural traits and characteristics. Her study resonates with current themes raised by critical, feminist and multicultural scholars showing how marginalized groups may be guilty of reinforcing their own status through complicity with the dominant culture's world view, and how education can empower them to demand a more egalitarian society and one that recognizes cultural plurality. Review ?Florence's authoritative treatment establishes hook's place along with Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and Peter McLaren as one of education's most respected cultural critical literary style--making the opaque language of cultural criticism accessible without sacrificing rigor or scholarship.?-Choice ?Florence's book will be an invaluable companion to the study of hook's theories....Both hooks' supporters and her detractors will find Namulundah Florence's painstaking reconstruction and transcultural application of hooks' theories to be an eye-opening, mind-challenging work....Bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy proves itself, argument by argument, to be not only an invaluable companion to the study of hooks' writings, but an expansion of her theories that can take the worldwide academic community beyond the "divide and conquer" promulgation of divisive wholesale dismissal of hooks' troubling stances.?-The Griot: The Journal of Black Heritage "Florence's authoritative treatment establishes hook's place along with Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and Peter McLaren as one of education's most respected cultural critical literary style--making the opaque language of cultural criticism accessible without sacrificing rigor or scholarship."-Choice "Florence's book will be an invaluable companion to the study of hook's theories....Both hooks' supporters and her detractors will find Namulundah Florence's painstaking reconstruction and transcultural application of hooks' theories to be an eye-opening, mind-challenging work....Bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy proves itself, argument by argument, to be not only an invaluable companion to the study of hooks' writings, but an expansion of her theories that can take the worldwide academic community beyond the "divide and conquer" promulgation of divisive wholesale dismissal of hooks' troubling stances."-The Griot: The Journal of Black Heritage About the Author NAMULUNDAH FLORENCE is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Fordham University's Graduate School of Education and College of Business. She was born in Kenya.