Social Studies – The Next Generation Re-searching in the Postmodern

The Editors: Avner Segall is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His research and teaching incorporate critical theory/pedagogy and cultural studies in order to critically examine education and its consequences. He is the author of Disturbing practice: Reading teacher education as text (Peter Lang, 2002). Elizabeth E. Heilman is Associate Professor of teacher education at Michigan State University. Her recent articles appear in Teachers College Record, Educational Theory and Teaching Education. She is the editor of Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives and co-editor of Democratic response in an era of standardization. Cleo H. Cherryholmes is Professor Emeritus of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. He is the author of Reading Pragmatism and Power and Criticism: Poststructural Investigations in Education and numerous articles and book chapters.