Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key parts of the text are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Introduction-Chapter 5

Reading Check

1. In the Introduction, by whom does hooks recall being taught in her early childhood?

2. What does hooks call the dominant educational philosophy that is in many regards the opposite of her own?

3. What is the name of the white friend from high school whom hooks recalls fondly in Chapter 2?

4. At which college did hooks teach when the events of Chapter 3 took place?

5. What name does hooks use for herself as interviewer in the Chapter 4 “interview” about Freire?

6. What specific part of the status quo did hooks often get into trouble at home for challenging when she was a child?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How did hooks’s educational experience change after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?

2. How does hooks suggest that professors can take the first step in being vulnerable with their students?

3. According to hooks, why do people fear change in the current racialized power structure?

4. Although the professors seemed willing to include non-majority writers on their syllabi, what disappointing attitude about these works did hooks see during the seminar discussed in Chapter 3?

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