About Me
Shirley R. Steinberg is the co-founder and director of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, and most recently, a Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. At present, she teaches at McGill University. She is the author and editor of many books in critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, and cultural studies. Her most recent books include: Teaching Against Islamophobia (2010); 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City (2010); Christotainment: Selling Jesus Through Popular Culture (2009); Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader (2009); Media Literacy: A Reader (2007); the award winning Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia; Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhoon (2010, 2004); and The Miseducation of the West: How Schools and Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islam World (2004). She is currently finishing two books: Writing and Publishing (Fall 2010) and The Bricolage and Qualitative Research (Fall 2010). A regular contributor to CBC Radio One, CTV, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Press, she is an internationally known speaker and teacher. She is also the founding editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, and the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy. The organizer of The Baeza Congress, she is committed to a global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in radical love, social justice, and the situating of power within social and cultural contexts.