For this assignment I researched Bell Hooks. I choose her because she is someone I have not heard much about prior to this assignment. Bell Hooks is a black woman who identifies herself as a feminist. She has the unique opportunity to have gone to a segregated (all Black) school as well as when she was older to a school where there were white and black children. She preferred the black school because their focus was on learning whereas to her it seemed like here teachers at the school with white children wanted her only to obey them. Her views on education begin with these ideas and experiences. Bell Hooks wanted to be a teacher from the time she was a child and she became a college professor as well as a writer. In terms of education Bell Hooks likes to use a personal approach. She talks about her own experiences. She does all this because she believes that teachers should be passionate about teaching and should not just teach children but inspire them to learn. She talks about engaged pedagogy, the idea that for the teacher to be the most effective with the students to engage them in learning the teacher needs to be reflective on his or her own practices first. She believes that education empowers people to better themselves and that learning can happen anywhere. Hooks writes also about race and gender. She believes that all these topics are connected to each other in terms of society. I think her ideas are great. I agree that many topics in society are all related to education. Society works as a whole not just individual parts.I also agree with her ideas about being passionate about learning and teaching. I really like that she believes that education can empower people. I believe this is extremely important.
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