These experiences open a window for us, not only to learn how class, gender and race biases are produced in subtle forms in apparently progressive and democratic institutions but also ways in which they can be resisted to make a more inclusive academic space. In Teaching to Transgress, hooks draws on her experiences, first as a student and then as an educator, and beautifully lays out how learning can be liberating and revolutionary. Intellectuals and sociologists of education, from Paulo Freire to Pierre Bourdieu to Michael Apple, Henry Giroux and Peter Mclaren, all have unpacked both the danger and promise inherent in education to reproduce as well as resist existing hierarchies. ‘To a life of the mind’ is a phrase from bell hooks’s Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom, a collection of essays, published in 1994, delineating the role liberatory education and pedagogy can play in our lives.
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