For corporate America, children—and their parents’ money—are one of the most targeted groups in our consumer society. There are TV shows, movies, video games, toys, books, and restaurants that are specifically directed at children—all of which has produced a “kinderculture” run by marketing and advertising executives. Through a series of entertaining and insightful essays, Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood explores some of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of children, from Beavis and Butt-Head to Barney, from Disney movies to Nintendo.Contributors drawn from the fields of education, sociology, and popular culture analyze the profound effects and the pervasive influence of these corporate productions in a style parents, educators, and general readers will welcome. Arguing that the experience of childhood has been, with or without our consent, reshaped into something that is prefabricated, Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe bring home to readers the impact our “marketing blitz” culture has on our children—and on our beliefs about childhood.

Features topographic maps of the continents, general regions, and specific countries, and includes information about time zones, air travel routes, climatic regions, and world statistics

Presents a collection of essays that focus on the topic of critical pedagoy and its response to the moral, economic, and social issues in the world.

A two-volume reference work offers fifty-nine essays addressing such issues of importance to urban education as social justice, teaching and pedagogy, bilingual education, and race and ethnicity.

A two-volume reference work offers fifty-nine essays addressing such issues of importance to urban education as social justice, teaching and pedagogy, bilingual education, and race and ethnicity.

Product Description: In an era in which talk abounds about scientific rigour and evidence-based research in education, this book presents a new and compelling examination of these concepts and carefully constructs a new understanding of rigour.

Product Description: In an era in which talk abounds about scientific rigour and evidence-based research in education, this book presents a new and compelling examination of these concepts and carefully constructs a new understanding of rigour.

Examines how critical thinking can be taught in a variety of settings and disciplines.

Product Description: 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 the theory in new frames of reference...read more

Argues that teachers should engage in research to increase their skills in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their students.