About the Author

The Author: Patricia H. Hinchey earned her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is Associate Professor of Education at Penn State. Her previous books include Finding Freedom in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory (an AESA Critics' Choice Award winner, Peter Lang, 1998); The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education (with I. Kimmel, 2000); Students' Rights (2000); and Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing a Critical Pedagogy (Peter Lang, 2004). A research fellow of the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University and of the Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Hinchey writes frequently on teacher education, educational policy, and critical pedagogy.