Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

• bell hooks
• Routledge; 2003
• Paperback; 216 pages
• 978-0-415-96818-8

Teaching can happen anywhere, at any time--not just in classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes, anywhere people get together to share ideas that affect their daily life. In Teaching Community, bell hooks shows how complex ideas of cultural theory can be simplified and made relevant to the lives of working people, and how the values of shared knowledge and learning can be a catalyst for progressive social change. Teaching--so often undervalued in our society--can be a joyous and inclusive activity and, as hooks shows, can never be confined to the classroom.