Joe L. Kincheloe

Abstract

Joe (Jodie) Lyons Kincheloe, Jr. personified the notion of what it means to live a life that cultivates the concept of “liberty and justice for all.” With a laser focus on social justice values, Kincheloe was a critical pedagogue’s critical pedagogue, a seminal provocateur reminding us that, while individual educators have the opportunity to make liberty and justice more likely, they need to be critically aware of institutional injustice, as can happen with schools with the perpetuation of inequities and the promotion of maintaining the “haves” and “have-nots” in our society.