In 1993, Kincheloe and Steinberg revolutionized notions of cognition with their seminal article, A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking: The Critical Confrontation with Cognitive Theory in the Harvard Education Review, drawing attention to the positivist assumptions made in much of concrete analyses in the work of Jean Piaget.
1993. godine Steinberg i Kincheloe moderniziraju pojmove u svojim temeljnim člancima, A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking: The Critical Confrontation with Cognitive Theory in the Harvard Education Review, usmjeravajući pozornost na pozitivne pretpostavke napravljene analizama u radovima Jeana Piageta.