Regenerating the Philosophy of Education

Scholars of education examine the philosophical underpinnings of their discipline, critique its deficiencies, and search for improvements. Among their topics are where the philosophical soul came from and where it went, resisting practice divorced from philosophy in teacher education and the classroom, no room for wonder, taking teacher education into alien terrain, and a critical complex epistemology of practice. There is no index. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Joe L. Kincheloe (1950-2008) was the author of over 55 books and hundreds of articles. His most recent book was Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy. His research/teaching involved devising and engaging students in new, more intellectually rigorous and socially just ways of analyzing and researching education. He developed an evolving notion of criticality that constructed innovative ways to cultivate the intellect as it worked in anti-oppressive and affectively engaging ways. With Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe founded the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, which aims to improve the contribution that education makes to social justice and the democratic quality of people’s lives.
Randall Hewitt is Associate Professor in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership at the University of Central Florida. Hewitt’s current research focuses on the critical sense of the American pragmatist, social reconstructionist traditions, and on the art of democratic pedagogy. He is the author of Dewey and Power: Renewing the Democratic Faith.