Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution

One of the most respected and influential educators in North America, Peter McLaren is known the world over for his political activism, his pioneering writings on critical pedagogy, and his trenchant critiques of global capitalism and educational policy. He is the author and editor of over twenty-five books and monographs including Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture, Revolutionary Multiculturalism, and Schooling as a Ritual Performance. His work has been published in twelve languages. Peter McLaren is professor in the Division of Urban Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California. He lectures worldwide on the politics of liberation and is considered one of the central architects of critical pedagogy. He has recently won the Paulo Freire Democratic Projects Award of Social Justice.

McLaren examines and interprets the teachings of these two figures with the aim of developing in readers the kind of critical agency he sees as necessary to resist the economic and political structures that currently dominate global relations.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgementsChapter 2 ForewordPart 3 Part One: The Man in the Black BeretPart 4 Part Two: The Man with the Grey BeardPart 5 A Pedagogy for the Revolution