Pedagogy of Insurrection

Peter McLaren is Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, International Ambassador of Global Ethics and Social Justice and Co-Director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project, College of Educational Studies, Chapman University in Orange, California. He is also Chair Professor at Northeast Normal University in Changchun China where he serves as Honorary Director of the Center for Critical Pedagogy Research. Professor McLaren served as Professor of Education, Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies and Renowned Scholar-in-Residence for 8 years at Miami University of Ohio and 20 years as Professor of Education at The University of California, Los Angeles. Professor McLaren is the author and editor of 45 books and several hundred scholarly articles. His writings and political activism have received major national and international awards. His work has been translated into thirty languages. Professor McLaren is considered one of the architects and leading exponents of critical pedagogy worldwide.

«[...] readers should start their potential acquaintance with Peter McLaren by enjoying the poetics of his text, which contributes essentially to the ‘‘sound’’ of his radically critical arguments and his plea for ‘‘concrete utopian praxis’’.»(Darko Strajn, International Revue of Education Volume 63, Issue 3/2017)

• Contents: Comrade Jesus – Comrade Freire – Comrade Chávez (with Mike Cole) – Comrade Fidel, the French Canadian and a Literacy Campaign – Comrade Che – Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: A Conversation with Peter McLaren (with Sebastjan Leban) – Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy is Made by Walking in a World Where Many Worlds Coexist (with Petar Jandrić) – Seeds of Resistance: Towards a Revolutionary Critical Ecopedagogy – Radical Negativity: Music Education for Social Justice – Deploying Guns to Expendable Communities: Bloodshed in Mexico, U.S. Imperialism and Transnational Capital – A Call for Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy (with Lilia D. Monzó and Arturo Rodriguez) – Education as Class Warfare – Critical Rage Pedagogy: From Critical Catharsis to Self and Social Transformation.