bell hooks’s Radical Pedagogy

Megan Feifer is Teacher-Scholar in Residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College, USA.Maia L. Butler is Associate Professor of African American Literature at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.Joanna Davis-McElligatt is Assistant Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, and LGBTQ Studies at the University of North Texas, USA.

• Foreword, Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College, USA)Introduction, Megan Feifer (Berea College, USA), Maia L. Butler (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA), and Joanna Davis-McElligatt (University of North Texas, USA)Part I: Engaged Pedagogies1. Pedagogies of Care: Care Teams, Meika Loe (Colgate University, USA)2. Death to PowerPoint: Life to Engaged Relational Pedagogy, Lauren Reid, Judelysse Gomez, Erin Hipple, Michelle Mendez, Oluwanifemi Olugbemiga, and Jack Wolcott (West Chester University, USA)3. Student Choice Projects as Engaged Pedagogy within the Neoliberal University, Jade Da Costa (York University, Canada)4. The Cultural Critique Paper: Teaching bell hooks in Philosophy, Hazel T. Biana (De La Salle University-Manila, the Philippines)5. Engaged Pedagogies While Asynchronously Online: Students as Experimental Storytellers, Desi Self (Stony Brook University, USA)6. All about bell: Foregrounding bell hooks in the Classroom as Engaged Pedagogy, Megan Feifer (Berea College, USA)Part II: Pedagogies of Hope and Joy7. Leaning into Discomfort: Grounding Our Identities as Teacher-Learners to Confront Difficult Emotions and Build a “Pedagogy of Hope”, Jasjit Sangha and Kosha D. Bramesfeld (University of Toronto, Canada)8. Transgressive, Transformative Feminist Pedagogies: Education for Hope and Healing, Patti Duncan (Oregon State University, USA)9. Hope, Survival, and Futurism as Creation, Bunny McFadden (Independent Scholar, USA)10. Connecting through Emotional Solidarity: Learning from Youths’ Stories of Hope and Sorrow, Katie B. Peachey, Caitlin M. Donovan, Jennifer C. Mann, María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo, and Crystal Chen Lee (Duke University, USA)11. Rethinking the Classroom as a Hub for Intellectual Joy and Scholastic Passion: A Dialog, Laiba Rizwan, Melanie Taddeo, and Kosha D. Bramesfeld (University of Toronto, Canada)Part III: Pedagogies of the Bodymindspirit12. Flirting with Self-exile: The Contentious and Curious Commonsense of Academic “Belonging”, Marlaina Martin (University of Maryland, USA)13. Soul of the Syllabus, Rev. Natalie Coe (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)14. Freedom Teaching: Black Feminist Ethic and the Death of the Ego, Nicole A. Spigner (Northwestern University, USA)15. Practical Wisdom: Praxis and the Urgency of the Moment, Joanna Davis-McElligatt (University of North Texas, USA)16. Spiritually Engaged Writing and Community Pedagogy: Honoring bell hooks’s Legacy, Rachel Panton (Nova Southeastern University, USA)Part IV: Strategies of Resistance and Anticolonial Frameworks17. Indigenous (Zapotec) Queer Feminist Pedagogy: Accessible, Healing, and Transformative Theory, Nancy Morales (Ithaca College, USA)18. Creating Critical Pedagogy Communities: The bell hooks Teaching Trilogy Reading Circle as Model of Cultivating Engaged Pedagogical Praxes, Savannah Geidel and Maia Butler (Berea College, USA)19. Intersectional Latinidad as a Critical Praxis Connecting College to Classroom: Lessons, Lineages, and Legacies of Liberatory Pedagogy from Teaching to Transgress, Alyssa Garcia, Margarita Mojica (Glenview Middle School, USA), and Glenview Middle School Students of Latinx Workshop20. Community Writing Programs as Communities of Resistance, Charles McMartin, Nicole Crevar, Maxwell Irving, and Charisse Iglesias (University of Arizona, USA)Index

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