A TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF POST-FORMAL THINKING - THE CRITICAL CONFRONTATION WITH COGNITIVE THEORY

In this article, Joe Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg critique and chal lenge the reductionist conceptions of intelligence that underlie cogni tive developmental theory. The authors formulate a post-Piagetian cogn itive theory that is informed by and extends critical, feminist, and p ostmodern thought. By delineating the features of what they refer to a s a ''post-formal'' way of thinking, the authors provide practitioners with a framework for reconsidering both curricular and pedagogical pr actices.