Pat Hinchey is Associate Professor of Education at Penn State, in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes and has conducted extensive professional development efforts for both in-service teachers and her faculty colleagues. A specialist in language and literacy education and critical practice, she teaches courses in language arts methodology, media literacy, issues in American education, teacher inquiry, and gender issues in education.  Her long-time research interests are the successful translation of critical theory to classroom praxis and the development of political awareness among teachers. Recently, her writing has focused on policy analysis, particularly policies that intend to marginalize teachers and to privatize  public education.  She is 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.

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