bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom

Kristin Comeforo is associate professor and graduate program director in the School of Communication at the University of Hartford.Mala L. Matacin is associate professor, associate chair, and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hartford.

• List of FiguresPreface: Love as a Transformative Force, Kristin Comeforo and Mala L. MatacinIntroduction: Naming our Practice: Honoring bell hooks’ Pedagogical Legacy, Kristin ComeforoSection I: The Courage to Transgress/Renewing our MindsChapter One: Teaching to Transgress Across Cultures: Reflections From a Black Male Educator of Latinx Students and a Latinx Female Educator of Black Students, Alejandra Torres and Marcel WilliamsChapter Two: A Multivocal Faculty-Student Exploration of bell hooks, Teaching, and Mentorship, Leandra Hernández, Stevie M. Munz, Agustin (Tino) Diaz, Elizabeht Hernandez and Duxiana RuizChapter Three: Learning From hooks’ Yearning: Becoming a Feminist Academic in a Neoliberal Campus, Siti MuflichahChapter Four: Picturing Possibility: Photovoice as Liberatory Pedagogy, Mala L. MatacinChapter Five: Extending Embodiment: bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy in the Virtual Postsecondary Classroom, Sydney Curtis and Amy M. WilkinsonSection II: The Courage to Teach/Activities as

bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy for the 21st Century Classroom is at once a loving gift to the legacy and import of one of our greatest thinkers and educators, and at the same time it is a compassionate—yet rigorous—meditation on how we might create radical spaces of pedagogical possibility. This is a book for teachers and for students, a book for those educating and being educated. Which is, in the end, all of us, all the time. As hooks has taught us, this book names, it loves, it transgresses. And we need it all.