Critical pedagogies and education for today

interview with Peter Mclaren

Abstract

Peter Mclaren is a Canadian teacher who has worked in Canada and the United States. She has developed her own perspective on critical pedagogies and is recognized today as one of the main figures of alternative theory in education. He met and worked with Paulo Freire, about whom he wrote a book.  He is today considered one of the most important representatives of critical pedagogy worldwide. His publications address issues of politics, anti-racism, citizen rights and education. His best-known books are War in Ukraine and America. DIO Press, 2022; Critical Pedagogy Manifesto. Teachers of the World Unite. DIO Press, 2021; He Walks Among Us: Christian Fascism Ushering in the End of Days. DIO Press, 2020; Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology, and Information Technology (with Petar Jandric). Bloomsbury Academic, 2020: Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator (with M. Wilson). Myers Education Press, 2019; Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution. Peter Lang, 2016; Revolutionizing Pedagogy: Educating for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neo-liberalism (with S. Macrine, S., and D. Hill, Eds). Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (with A. Nocella, S. Best, S., Eds.) (2010). AK Press, 2010.; Havoc of Capitalism. Educating for Social and Environmental Justice (with G. Martin, D. Houston, D., & Suoranta, J., (Eds.). Sense Publishers, 2010; Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse" (with Sandlin, J.A.). Routledge, 2019; Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire (with N. Jaramillo). Sense Publishers, 2007; Rage + Hope. Peter Lang, 2006; Capitalists and Conquerors. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism (with R. Farahmandpur). Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; Red Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy. Hampton Press, 2005; Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (with D. Hill, M. Cole, & G. Rikowski). Lexington Books, 2002. Red Chalk (with M. Cole, D. Hill, and G. Rikowski). The Tufnell Press, 2000; Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education, 1998; Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium. Westview Press, 1997; Counternarratives (with H. Giroux, C. Lankshear & M. Peters). Routledge, 1997; Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture. Routledge, 1995; Schooling as a ritual performance. Routledge, 1986; Cries from the corridor: The new suburban ghettos. Methuen, 1980.