This book is the first in bell hooks's teaching trilogy, the next two of which I plan to read in quick succession so as I am wont to do in posting about series of books I will reserve my overall reflections for the final post. The overarching theme of this first instalment is the practice of education as freedom; the real, gritty, person-centred praxis of allowing experience & expertise to inform each other in a mutualistic way, as we learn best (arguably only) when we are engaged in a collaborative, unbounded relationship to the teacher, the material, and other students, in such a dynamic that allows us to situate ourselves in relation to what we are learning and how it relates to the status quo, however inclined we may be to conform to it or not.
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