bells hooks and critical thinking

Critical Thinking by bell hooks

 

bell hooks teaching critical thinking should be a standard practice that all teachers should apply to.
Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first to understand the deep meaning, root causes, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process and  experience. Self process and evaluation are critical process for teachers to understand and apply for themselves and share that with the students so they understand that they are also part of the team
Critical pedagogy includes relationships between teaching and learning. Its proponents claim that it is a continuous process of what they call "unlearning", "learning", and "relearning"

It is sad that most children are taught early on the thinking is dangerous and start fearing that thinking mind. And as they go thru school where independent thinking is not acceptable behavior. By the time they get to college they come to dread thinking. Fortunate some professors are aiming to educate thinking, critical thinking is what matters. Thus embracing joy and power of thinking or engaged pedagogy.. This strategy aims to restore students will to think. Critical thinking is an interactive process that demands participation by teacher and students alike. Critical thinking requires us to use our imagination and seeing things from perspective.  Critical thinking is great but it needs to be taught by all teachers and used and nurture and I don’t see that yet in grade school level yet.