Radical Delight

A series of presentations and provocations inspired primarily by the writing of bell hooks and her ideas around radical openness. I ask: what might it mean to hold the spaces in which we teach open for radical delight?  What might it mean to listen radically? Navigate our working networks with care?  Peer review with generosity? Teach critical thinking for joy?​

The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy. 

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994) 

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​Democratic educators are often stereotyped by their more conservative counterparts as not as rigorous or as without standards. This is especially the case when the democratic educator attempts to create a spirit of joyful practice in the classroom. 

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bell hooks. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) 

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When we teach our students that there is safety in learning to cope with conflict, with differences of thought and opinion, we prepare their minds for radical openness. 

bell hooks. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010)

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Before words are spoken in the classroom, we come together as bodies. 

bell hooks. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010)

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