Shirley R. Steinberg

Unauthorized methods : strategies for critical teaching

Chapter I Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg -- Lesson Plans from the Outer Limits: Unauthorized Methods PART I: FROM THEORY ... Chapter II Ivor F. Goodson -- Towards an Alternative Pedagogy Chapter III Kathleen S. Berry -- Nurturing the Imagination of Resistance: Young Adults as Creators of Knowledge PART II: TO PRACTICE ... Chapter IV Karen Anijar with Joshuea Anijar, Ronald Gonzales and Lana Krievis -- Gorillas ...Oops: Guerrillas in our Midst--(RE)dux: Kitchen Knowledge Chapter V Nina Zaragoza and Marge Scardina -- The Critical Transformation of a Special Education Classroom: A Beginning Teacher Puts Theory into Practice Chapter VI Timothy A. Dohrer -- A Textbook for Everyone: Balancing Canons and Culture in English Textbooks Chapter VII Ann Watts Pailliotet -- Deep Viewing: A Critical Look at Visual Texts Chapter VIII Ladi Semali -- Still Crazy After All of These Years: Teaching Critical Media Literacy Chapter XI Lourdes Diaz Soto -- Bilingual Education in America: In Search of Equity and Social Justice Chapter X Dennis E. Fehr -- Innovative Pedagogy in Art Education Chapter XI David B. Pushkin -- Teacher Says: Simon Says--Dualism in Science Learning Chapter XII Peter M. Appelbaum -- Teaching/Learning Mathematics in School Chapter XIII John A. Weaver and Karen Grindall -- Surfing and Getting Wired in a Fifth Grade Classroom: Critical Pedagogical Methods and Techno-Culture Chapter XIV Patrick Slattery and Rebecca McElfresh Spehler -- Teachers and Administrators: A Vision of Prophetic Practice

What You Don't Know about Schools

We live in an era where our view of school is reduced by a superficial public conversation. In this context, the complexity of the educational process and the debate over the purpose of schooling is lost. This book brings together leading scholars of education to analyze these issues and engage the public in different ways of looking at school.

An Ideology of Miseducation: Countering the Pedagogy of Empire

In the Western tradition of writing about, researching, and representing Islam, Europeans have consistently positioned Muslims as the irrational, fanatic, sexually enticing, and despotic others. This portrayal, as many scholars have argued, has been as much about Western anxieties, fears, and self-doubts as it has about Islam. After 9/11, along with the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the way images of Islam have been embedded in the American consciousness becomes extremely important to everyday life. With these concerns in mind, we examine the educational practices—defined broadly to include both schooling and media pedagogy—that help construct these ways of seeing.

A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking

In 1990, Joe was finishing his second book, Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment. As we had just bought a new Mac, the first word processing computer with a hard drive, I offered to type the book for him. In those days, word processing was still quite cumbersome, and the nuances of cutting, pasting, and saving, didn’t always work well. Long story short, after the book came out, Joe noticed that I had missed an entire chapter. I was embarrassed; he was depressed, so I said I would do anything to make it up to him.