bell hooks
1952 – 2021 American author, educator, theorist
American writer and teacher who reimagined the classroom as a place of freedom and engagement.
- Religion
- Buddhist and Christian influences.
- Affiliations
- Wrote Teaching to Transgress; taught at several universities.
bell hooks, the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, wrote widely on race, gender, and education. In Teaching to Transgress she drew on Paulo Freire to argue for an engaged pedagogy that treats students as whole people and the classroom as a place of liberation. Her work remains influential in critical and feminist approaches to teaching.
Connections
- influenced Paulo Freire — Built her engaged pedagogy on Freire's critical education.
- influenced Paulo Freire — hooks built on Freire's critical pedagogy.