books by Joe Kincheloe     books:       Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction (Explorations of Educational Purpose) Joe L. Kincheloe Springer, 2008 In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system. The lack of attention such issues receive in pedagogical institutions around the world undermines the value of education and its role as a force of social justice. In ...             Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now? (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education) Peter Lang Publishing, 2007 Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is disinterested in politics. In this globalized world, the power of capital is so great that opposition to it is often discouraged and disheartened, leaving many citizens few political precepts by ...             Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations3 reviews Joe L. Kincheloe, Patrick Slattery, ... Allyn & Bacon, 1999 Much needed This is exactly the kind of text future teachers need! For too long educators have been given recipes for teaching...they need to learn to think. Unless we consider the socio-cultural influences on education we will continue to perpetuate the status-quo. The title does give an accurate picture of the contents...the book is an introduction to teaching not a methods book. I feel sorry for the ...             Critical Constructivism Primer (Lang Primers) Joe L. Kincheloe Peter Lang Publishing, 2005 The Critical Constructivism Primer introduces education students to the study of knowledge; how it is inscribed by particular values and produced in problematic ways; whose interests it serves; and how it shapes the identities of those who consume it. Critical constructivism is an epistemological position that examines the process by which knowledge is socially constructed. Joe L. Kincheloe takes readers through the basic concepts and alerts ...             Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment (Teacher'slibrary) Joe Kincheloe RoutledgeFalmer, 2002 Extensively updated and revised, this new edition urges teachers to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Kincheloe argues that only by engaging in complex, critical research will teachers rediscover their professional status, empower their practice in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their pupils. Building on the success of the first edition, this book includes new ...             Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood2 reviews Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe Westview Press, 2004 No future for corporation kids This is a collection of essays on the theme that childhood is a creation of society and today it is the corporations who are constructing childhood.Topics examined include Disney movies,"educational" television,Beavis and Butthead,video games,television wrestling, Barbie, and Macdonald's.Children are shamelessly being exploited for profit with no consideration for their welfare.Graphic ...             Nineteen Urban Questions: Teaching in the City (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 215.)1 review Peter Lang Publishing, 2004 Twenty informed and informative essays from experienced academics and researchers Collaboratively compiled, organized and co-edited by Shirley R. Steinberg (Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Literacy, Brooklyn College) and Joe L. Kincheloe (Professor of Education, CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program, Brooklyn College), 19 Urban Questions: Teaching In The City provides an detailed and accessible overview of urban education emphasizing its complexity in terms of ...             Critical Pedagogy Primer (Peter Lang Primer) Joe L. Kincheloe Peter Lang Publishing, 2008 The second edition of the Critical Pedagogy Primer not only introduces the topic but also provides a vision for the future of the critical pedagogy. Kincheloe?s notion of an "evolving criticality" makes sure that critical pedagogy will continue to be a vibrant and creative force that makes a powerful difference in education and in the world in general. As it prepares readers for the challenges of the future, it focuses on the traditions and ...             Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined7 reviews Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 Fails to deliver the punch of Stephen J. Gould's Mismeasure of Man This book is a collection of essays written by authors who feel that intelligence is not correctly measured by IQ tests.This is especially evident when specific racial and ethnic minority groups are judged to have IQ's that are significantly lower than those of the white population. Unfortunately,practically all of the authors miss a golden opportunity to question the basic data upon which ...             The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power (Labor in Crisis)2 reviews Joe L. Kincheloe Temple University Press, 2002 The best book in cultural studies and labor This book is a refreshing break from the self-indulgent prattle of cultural studies. Taking an autobiographical theme, blending it with a bricolage of good research, the author looks at the power behind the McDonald's corporation. Examining the hegemonic implications of McDonald's, Kincheloe never ceases to entertain, teach, and create the best page-turner of the year--read this book if you ...             Kidworld: Childhood Studies, Global Perspectives, and Education (Rethinking Childhood, Vol. 16)1 review Peter Lang Publishing, 2002 No Disney, No McDonald's ? Please! Cannella does an apt job of dispelling myths of Disney, McDonald's and the influence or "American culture" in education. If you love big corporations, coporate greed, and monopolies this is not the read for you. This book reads like a documentary movie. So.. if you enjoy documentaries like SuperSize Me, Bowling for Columbine, I'm sure you'll find yourself enjoying and frustrated at the same time ...             Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture2 reviews Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe Westview Press, 2009 Highly recommended for both interested readers and scholars. Christotainment is lively, fascinating, clearly-presented, and well-researched account of the history, scope, and implications of the current proliferation of Christian books, Christian music, Christian movies, Christian festivals etc.. The book "unpacks" examples of each of these and helps the reader place them in the context of the surrounding culture. As a fan of popular culture, I appreciated ...             The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology [Four Volumes] (v. 1-4) Praeger Publishers, 2006 Cognition, mind, counseling psychology, lesson plans, learning styles, and Vygotsky are just a few of the many subjects discussed in this exciting work. Educators, students, counselors, parents, and others will find new understanding as they read and browse. How does the immigrant experience affect student outcomes? What are the effects of poverty on standardized testing? How can a teacher or parent develop study skills in the special needs ...             White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 What does it mean to be white in today's society? Is whiteness an ethnicity? White Reign tackles questions like these by examining whiteness as a cultural concept that our society has created and exposing the systems that teach us how we think about race, including schools, media, and even cyberspace. These essays examine the construction of white identity and the possibility of reshaping whiteness in a progressive, nonracist manner, ...             Getting Beyond the Facts: Teaching Social Studies in the Late Twentieth Century (American University Studies. ...1 review Joe L. Kincheloe Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1989 Minus the agenda and length...Good book. This was a textbook for my Secondary Education/History Teacher course. I understood why the author wrote it and why my professor chose it, but could have been better. Kincheloe raises some interesting points, but goes off on too topics. Verbous is an understatement. Worth taking a look at, but certainly not THE text.             Toward a Critical Politics of Teacher Thinking: Mapping the Postmodern (Critical Studies in Education and ...1 review Joe L. Kincheloe Bergin & Garvey Paperback, 1993 Radical This book is radical and calls for fundamental change in our educational system. I happen to agree! No longer can we sit idley by and watch the power structure of our nation maintain status quo at the expense our children's future. Kincheloe exposes the greed and motives of our inherently racist and classist system. Cheers to Kincheloe for having the guts to point out our nations biggest ...             Rigour & Complexity in Educational Research (Conducting Educational Research) Joe Kincheloe, Kathleen Berry Open University Press, 2004 In an era in which talk abounds about scientific rigour and evidence-based research in education, this book presents a new and compelling examination of these concepts and carefully constructs a new understanding of rigour.             The Praeger Handbook of Urban Education [Two Volumes] (v. 1 & 2) Praeger Publishers, 2006 Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this work proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, rather than bureaucrats who can only follow rather than analyze, understand and ...              search for books childhood, christotainment, complexity, conducting, construction, constructivism, contextualizing, corporate, counterpoints, deploying, education, educational, empowerment, explorations, foundations, introduction, kinderculture, knowledge, measured, perspectives, postmodern, psychology, qualitative, questions, research, researchers, rethinking, twentieth, university, whiteness books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Dragon Force Operation home  impressum - about us