Examines how McDonald’s captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition…

Twenty years after the publication of Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Joe L. Kincheloe and the contributing authors of Multiple Intelligences Reconsidered critique and rethink…

Dedicated to a praxis of social and political activism rooted in students’ development as citizens and workers, the labor of teachers as action researchers, cultural workers, and social mediators is…

Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in schools of education, this volume features a scholarly group of authors who argue for the continuing importance of the philosophy of education. It…

The fourteen letters making up this book engage pre-service teachers with a personable and accessible voice. Critiques of traditional methods of language arts are offered together with fresh alternatives to…

Classroom Teaching is an introductory text that challenges the antiquated ways that teaching and curriculum have been presented.

Christotainment examines how Christian fundamentalism has realigned its armies to combat threats against it by employing the forces it once considered its chief enemies: the entertainment media, including movies, television…

In this book Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire’s words challenge all who teach to…