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Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom

bell hooks
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In this article, the authors discuss the importance of engaged pedagogy and teaching to transgress in a multiracial world, focusing on the teaching of new worlds and new words.
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Introduction: Teaching to Transgress 1. Engaged Pedagogy 2. A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change 3. Embracing Change: Teaching in a Multicultural World 4. Paulo Freire 5. Theory as Liberatory Practice 6. Essentialism and Experience 7. Holding My Sister's Hand: Feminist Solidarity 8. Feminist Thinking: In the Classroom Right Now 9. Feminist Scholarship: Black Scholars 10. Building a Teaching Community: A Dialogue 11. Language: Teaching New Worlds / New Words 12. Confronting Class in the Classroom 13. Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedgagogical Process 14. Ecstasy: Teaching and Learning Without Limits

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Deep Listening in a Feminist Popular Theatre Project: Upsetting the Position of Audience in Participatory Education:

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Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction

TL;DR: The authors provides a comprehensive introduction to the diverse and contested world of social work, and explores the key concepts and theoretical frameworks underpinning contemporary social work practice, as well as relevant professional skills and strategies from a critical perspective.
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A Re‐conceptualization of ‘Reverse Mission’ for International Social Work Education and Practice

TL;DR: This article explored the concept of reverse mission as it appears in the theology and mission studies literature, and examined its utility for international social work education and practice, and suggested reverse missions as an approach to International Social Work education and practices that emphasizes learning from indigenous people in host countries; raising the critical consciousness of social workers about their cultural biases and misconceptions; and advocating for changes within one's home country to impact poverty and injustice in the world.
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THE NEW FLÂNEUR : Subaltern cultural studies, African youth in Canada and the semiology of in-betweenness

Awad Ibrahim
- 21 Feb 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a recent immigrant and refugee group of continental francophone African youth, who are attending an urban French-language high school in southwestern Ontario, Canada, is described.