The bell hooks
Framework
Engaged Pedagogy & Love as Practice
bell hooks represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. bell hooks's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The engaged pedagogy & love as practice framework distils bell hooks's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions bell hooks made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with bell hooks's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of bell hooks's thinking.
Knowledge is not neutral, and the act of teaching is never merely technical — it is always an ethical choice about whose ways of knowing get centered and whose get erased. hooks insists that *engaged pedagogy* goes beyond critical pedagogy by demanding that the educator also be committed to their own self-actualization, not just the student's liberation; a teacher who is not themselves in the process of becoming cannot create conditions for others to do the same. Love, in this framework, is not sentiment — it is the disciplined, active will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual and intellectual growth, even when that nurturing requires confrontation.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
Whose ways of knowing did this curriculum treat as the default, and who had to translate themselves to enter it?
4 more questions in bell hooks's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics bell hooks actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in bell hooks's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like bell hooks, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →bell-hooks.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →bell-hooks-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of bell hooks. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.