Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

How does intersectionality play a role in hooks’s critical pedagogy? How does politics play a role in curriculum and instruction?

What decolonizing practices can teachers utilize? What impact do they have on the classroom?

What role does love play in the classroom? How can teachers foster love and trust with and among their students?

How do hooks’s assessments of modern academia and the influence of the feminist movement compare to the state of academia today? Are college institutions still at the forefront of decolonization, or are they actively contributing to the colonization of the mind? 

How do hooks’s education theories compare to the “Whole Child” approach to education or other contemporary educational movements?

How can teachers promote mutuality and community in the classroom?

How can an individual foster the inner life or the personal intellectual life? What practices can one employ?

How does collaboration with others contribute to learning and growth? How can teachers develop collaboration in their practice?