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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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In Chapter 1, hooks remembers her anxiety about becoming a tenured professor, especially since she had always wanted to be a writer. By the end of the book, she reflects on the past 20 years of teaching. In what ways has teaching turned out to be the most rewarding part of her life?
hooks emphasizes that the theory of engaged pedagogy, which draws heavily on the work of Paulo Freire, must be tied to praxis, or practice. In what specific ways does hooks advocate praxis in the classroom?
Although hooks has taught in the university classroom, how can her ideas be adapted for K-12 classrooms to reflect engaged pedagogy?
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