Critical Constructivism Primer - Paperback

by Joe L. Kincheloe (Other), Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Joe L. Kincheloe (Author)

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 them to the dangers of objectivism, reductionism, and the pathological views of self and world that emerge if students and educators are unaware of the construction of knowledge by dominant power interests. The book is essential reading for individuals who want to become researchers and educators.

Author Biography

The Author: Joe L. Kincheloe is Professor of Education at the CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program and at Brooklyn College. He has written books and articles on pedagogy, research, urban studies, cognition, curriculum, and cultural studies. He is the editor of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City (with Shirley R. Steinberg; Peter Lang, 2004), Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Paths to Empowerment; How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socio-Economic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education; The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power; and Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum (with Shirley R. Steinberg).