American author, feminist theorist and educator, born Gloria Jean Watkins, who wrote under a lowercase pen name (taken from her maternal great-grandmother) to keep attention on her ideas rather than her identity. Her Teaching to Transgress developed engaged pedagogy, drawing on her own education in segregated Kentucky schools to argue that teaching should be a practice of freedom, love and transformation.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped engaged pedagogy, a practice combining anti-colonial, feminist and critical approaches to teach the whole student and treat the classroom as a site of freedom rather than domination. 1 Notable WorkTeaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994) 1 Connections
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bell hooks's engaged pedagogy combined anti-colonial, feminist and critical approaches, per her own live defining-contribution; she is a major critical-pedagogy theorist building on and engaging Paulo Freire's work.
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bell hooks, described in her own live entity-description as an American author, feminist theorist and educator, developed engaged pedagogy combining anti-colonial, feminist and critical approaches, per her own live defining-contribution.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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hooks builds engaged pedagogy on Freire
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: Feminist Pedagogy, Defining contribution, bell hooks
Developed engaged pedagogy, a practice combining anti-colonial, feminist and critical approaches to teach the whole student and treat the classroom as a site of freedom rather than domination.
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Developed engaged pedagogy, a practice combining anti-colonial, feminist and critical approaches to teach the whole student and treat the classroom as a site of freedom rather than domination.
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