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Title: Joe Kincheloe papers
Identifier/Call Number: 2009.019.r.f
Contributing Institution:
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
17.8 Linear feet
(15 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1966-2008
Abstract: This collection contains the academic papers of pedagogy theorist Joe Lyons Kincheloe, (December 14, 1950 – December 19, 2008).
creator:
Kincheloe, Joe L., (Joe Lyons)
In processing.
This collection is arranged by series and material type.
SERIES 1 Papers
SERIES 2 Correspondence, business
SERIES 3 Manuscripts
SERIES 4 Notebooks
SERIES 5 Publications
SERIES 6 Files, education
Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is open for research.
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Joe Lyons Kincheloe, (December 14, 1950 – December 19, 2008), was a professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of
Education, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He wrote more than 45 books, numerous book-chapters, and hundreds
of journal articles on issues including critical pedagogy, educational research, urban studies, cognition, curriculum, and
cultural studies. Kincheloe received three graduate degrees from the University of Tennessee. The father of four children,
he worked closely for the last 19 years of his life with his partner, Shirley R. Steinberg.
Joe Kincheloe's first academic position was on the Rosebud Indian 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), 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 2006,
and received a Canada Research Chair in October 2006.
Central to Kincheloe's work in all of these areas is the construction of a rigorous form of multidimensional scholarship that
draws upon critical theory, critical pedagogy, feminist theory, complexity theory, indigenous knowledges, post/anti-colonialism,
and other global discourses to help end dominant power-constructed human suffering. In his work over the last few years Kincheloe
has focused much attention on the politics of knowledge and epistemology and the diverse ways they operate to shape human
consciousness and socio-political and educational activities. He was dedicated to creating a critical pedagogy that helps
individuals reshape their lives, become better scholars and social activists, realize their cognitive potential, re-create
democratic spaces in a electronically mediated global world, and build and become members of communities of solidarity that
work to create better modes of education and a more peaceful, equitable, and ecologically sustainable world.
Kincheloe's work is viewed not simply as a key public intellectual of our era but a mentor and role model for young scholars.
He and Shirley R. Steinberg have helped scholars/activists from around the world develop and publish over 500 books. In this
spirit Kincheloe offers a compelling vision of reconceptualized academic institutions grounded on both a hardnosed understanding
of power and scholarship and a commitment to new conceptions of social justice and pedagogy. In recent years Kincheloe has
come to be known internationally as the conscience of critical pedagogy.
Information found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_L._Kincheloe
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Shirley Steinberg.
[identify item], Joe Kinchloe papers (2009.019.r.f)], Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Chapman
University, CA.
Related Archival Materials note
This collection is part of the Paulo Freire Critical Pedagogy Archive.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Steinberg, Shirley Ruth, 1952-
Critical pedagogy.