Practicing Critical Pedagogy The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe

This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical ped

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Mary Frances Agnello William M. Reynolds Editors

Practicing Critical Pedagogy The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe

Critical Studies of Education Volume 2

Series Editors Shirley R. Steinberg, University of Calgary, Montreal, Québec, Canada Kenneth Tobin, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA Editorial Board Kevin Alderson, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Rochelle Brock, University of Indiana, Gary, USA Alejandro J. Gallard, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA Bettina Love, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Christine Quail, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA Leila Villaverde, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA Peter Charles Taylor, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA

We live in an era where forms of education designed to win the consent of students, teachers, and the public to the inevitability of a neo-liberal, market-driven process of globalization are being developed around the world. In these hegemonic modes of pedagogy questions about issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, religion, and other social dynamics are simply not asked. Indeed, questions about the social spaces where pedagogy takes place—in schools, media, corporate think tanks, etc.—are not raised. When these concerns are connected with queries such as the following, we begin to move into a serious study of pedagogy: What knowledge is of the most worth? Whose knowledge should be taught? What role does power play in the educational process? How are new media re-shaping as well as perpetuating what happens in education? How is knowledge produced in a corporatized politics of knowledge? What socio-political role do schools play in the twenty-first century? What is an educated person? What is intelligence? How important are socio-cultural contextual factors in shaping what goes on in education? Can schools be more than a tool of the new American (and its Western allies’) twenty-first century empire? How do we educate well-informed, creative teachers? What roles should schools play in a democratic society? What roles should media play in a democratic society? Is education in a democratic society different than in a totalitarian society? What is a democratic society? How is globalization affecting education? How does our view of mind shape the way we think of education? How does affect and emotion shape the educational process? What are the forces that shape educational purpose in different societies? These, of course, are just a few examples of the questions that need to be asked in relation to our exploration of educational purpose. This series of books can help establish a renewed interest in such questions and their centrality in the larger study of education and the preparation of teachers and other educational professionals.

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Mary Frances Agnello • William M. Reynolds Editors

Practicing Critical Pedagogy The Influences of Joe L