Teaching Peter McLaren: Paths of Dissent (Teaching Contemporary Scholars),Used

Product Description Teaching Peter McLaren, the first volume in the Teaching Contemporary Scholars series, focuses on the work of educational scholars on the left who have made major contributions to the field. In this book, editors Marc Pruyn and Luis M. HuertaCharles have assembled a notable group of contributors who reflect on, analyze, and critique over two decadess worth of scholarship produced by Peter McLaren, one of the most influential and widely read leftist scholars working in academia today. Specifically, this book focuses on the nexus of education, critical theory, Marxism, globalization, and struggles for social justice via the work and theorizing of McLaren. Review Teaching Peter McLaren is provocative, thorough, timely, engaging, challenging, reflective, critical, outstanding, unique, witty, and above all, a superb and needed contribution to the understanding of one of the most influential pedagogues of our times. In this book, Marc Pruyn and Luis HuertaCharles put together the most comprehensive collection of articles addressing the contributions, changes, contradictions, influences, background, and potential of the ideas and praxis of a revolutionary scholar who has been a very creative, forceful, and brave voice for more than 30 years Peter McLaren. This is the book that those who are passionate and committed to the creation of a better society and the urgent need to reinvent schooling as a space for social change and meaningful learning are waiting to read. (Gustavo Enrique Fischman, Arizona State University) Teaching Peter McLaren not only engages the work of one of the most formidable political sociologists in the field of education, it also sounds a challenge to educators and researchers worldwide that the purpose of educational research is not to explain the world, but to transform it. In a field that most often marginalizes its voices of dissent, it is heartening to see a book that honors one of our most outspoken and influential intellectuals and activists. (Kris Gutierrez, University of California, Los Angeles) Teaching Peter McLaren offers a wideranging critical analysis of one of educations most vibrant writers. The book itself provides an important historical overview of Peter McLarens scholarly work across two decades, and the scholars brought together by Marc Pruyn and Luis HuertaCharles present a rich polyvocal account of McLarens significant contributions to critical pedagogy and social theory. Undergraduate, graduate, and academic readers alike will find this text an invaluable reference resource. (Michele Knobel, Montclair State University) Using his own rich experience as a teacheractivist, and with the inspiration of Paulo Freire and Ch Guevara, Peter McLaren has amazingly reshaped Western pedagogy into a liberatory weapon for all oppressed people. This collection of essays on his work is an eloquent testimony to McLarens powerful contribution to the discipline of education as a transformative critique and emancipatory praxis. (E. San Juan, Jr., Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut; Author of Racism and Cultural Studies and Beyond Postcolonial Theory) For more than three decades, Peter McLarens provocative and passionate contributions to educational, social, and political thought have influenced and inspired pedagogues and activists the world over. Through both words and deeds, McLaren has unrelentingly challenged the myriad forms of injustice that exist in the world and has tirelessly committed his energies to the struggle for transformative social change. Teaching Peter McLaren is at once a remarkable testament to his formidable career and a critical engagement with his unique theoretical formulations. This welcome, overdue, and comprehensive book is a powerful tribute to the rich tapestry of McLarens life work, and a mustread for all those who still believe that another world is indeed possible. (Valerie