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A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking

The Critical Confrontation with Cognitive Thinking

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In 1990, Joe was finishing his second book, Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment. As we had just bought a new Mac, the first word processing computer with a hard drive, I offered to type the book for him. In those days, word processing was still quite cumbersome, and the nuances of cutting, pasting, and saving, didn’t always work well. Long story short, after the book came out, Joe noticed that I had missed an entire chapter. I was embarrassed; he was depressed, so I said I would do anything to make it up to him.

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Kincheloe, J.L., Steinberg, S.R. (2011). A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking. In: Hayes, K., Steinberg, S.R., Tobin, K. (eds) Key Works in Critical Pedagogy. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 32. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-397-6_5

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