Joe L. Kincheloe
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Joe L. Kincheloe is an internationally-known Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Education, McGill University (Canada). He has written more than 40 books, numerous book-chapters, and hundreds of journal articles on issues including but not limited to critical pedagogy, educational research, urban studies, cognition, curriculum, and cultural studies. Born in Kingsport, Tennessee in 1950, Kincheloe received three graduate degrees from The University of Tennessee. His first academic position was on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation as the department chair of education at Sinte Gleska College (1980-1982). He was tenured at LSU-Shreveport (1982-1989), Clemson University (1989-1992), Florida International University (1992-1994), The Pennsylvania State University (1994-1998), and was the Belle Zeller Chair of Public Policy and Administration from 1998-2000 at Brooklyn College. Kincheloe co-authored the Urban Education Ph.D. program at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and served as Deputy Executive Program Officer there from 2000-2005. He moved to McGill University in January of 2006, and received a Canada Research Chair in October 2006. The father of four children, he has worked for the past 17 years closely with his partner, Shirley R. Steinberg.
His work draws from a number of theoretical traditions,and his analyses focus on the social, cultural, political, economic, and cognitive dynamics that contextualize teaching and learning. Dr. Kincheloe's research provides for a compelling understanding of the forces shaping contemporary education and lead to improved efforts to shape schools that rigorously cultivate the intellect while operating in a more socially just and inclusive manner.
Prof. Kincheloe has founded the 'Paulo and Nita Freire Initiative for International Critical Pedagogy' at the Faculty of Education, McGill University. He is considered a leading scholar on critical pedagogy, post-formalism, critical constructivism, and contemporary curriculum discourses.
