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bell hooks is my intellectual crush. She's has the awesome ability to blend progressive ideas, complex theory, good-will, feminism, love of self, and love of learning in all that she has written. Meeting her at an NCTE conference several years ago continues to be an indelible memory in my journey as Leggi tutto

“Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom” When I need to reorient my feminism, I go to bell hooks without question. Her writing has always been insightful and accessible to me in a way that truly spoke to me and awakened my critical feminist lens in a way no other writer did during my formative Leggi tutto

bell hooks writing in this book makes me feel pretty darn inspired. so many beautiful nuggets. i think its particularly helpful while you're in some kind of structured program. which i am. and its suited for folks who already have tons of reading, because the chapters are only a few pages. i will admi Leggi tutto

This book, like the others I’ve read by bell hooks, was packed full of little gems of knowledge. I do think the title was misleading, as not much of it was really about “teaching critical thinking” but if I didn’t think too much about that, I did enjoy reading most of the little essays. There were a Leggi tutto

the five stars more reflects the impact these books have had as a trilogy than my specific feelings about this single book. (the short essay format, while more digestible doesn’t really fit all of the subjects). as a whole, these books have really made me think differently about learning/teaching an Leggi tutto