Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations

by Joe L. Kincheloe, Patrick Slattery, Shirley R. Steinberg

Written from a cutting-edge perspective, Contextualizing Teaching offers a critical and constructive way of looking at the world and thinking about teaching and learning in schools. The book reviews a wide range of historical, philosophical, and social literature from a postmodern perspective, and the authors provide illustrative examples and case studies from personal experience, which illuminate the themes they discuss.

466 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 1999

About the author

Joe Lyons Kincheloe (December 14, 1950 – December 19, 2008) was a professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founder of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. He wrote more than 45 books, numerous book chapters, and hundreds of journal articles on issues including critical pedagogy, educational research, urban studies, cognition, curriculum, and cultural studies.