Table of Contents

Contents: Joe L. Kincheloe: What Are We Doing Here? Building a Framework for Teaching - Joe L. Kincheloe: Issues of Power, Questions of Purpose - Philip M. Anderson: The Meaning of Pedagogy - Mordechai Gordon: The Basics, Educational Purpose, and the Curriculum - Joe L. Kincheloe: The Curriculum and the Classroom - Karel Rose: Philosophy Matters for Teachers - Tricia Kress: The Teacher as Mediator between Schools and Students - Elizabeth E. Heilman: The Social Dimensions of Classroom Teaching - Kenneth Tobin: Using Technology in the Classroom - Nina Zaragoza: Including Families in the Teaching and Learning Process - David C. Bloomfield: Legal Issues in the Classroom - Patricia A. Whang: Disrupting Discipline - Kathryn Herr: Reconsidering Problem Students - Shaheen Shariff/Teresa Strong-Wilson: Bullying and New Technologies - Julia Ellis: Creative Classroom Teaching - Kathleen S. Berry: Using Drama Across the Curriculum - Leif Gustavson/Peter Appelbaum: Youth Culture Practices, Popular Culture, and Classroom Teaching - Pam Joyce: Uncovering Untapped Potential: Transdisciplinary Literacy - Gina Marisol Candelier-Diaz: Teaching Critical Thinking in a World of Difference - Ibrahim Abukhattala/Joan Russell: Diversity in Classrooms: Four Arab Muslim Women Speak Out - Mark Dunetz: Classroom Teaching Methods: Students as Inquirers - Wolff-Michael Roth: Body and Emotion in Knowing and Learning.

About the Author

The Editor: 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 (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).