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Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empirereviewed by William Ayers - December 12, 2006 Title: Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Author(s): Peter McLaren Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 0742541932 , Pages: 368, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com ESSAY REVIEW
Notes From A Self-Realizing, Sensuous, Species-Being ( I Think)
By now Peter McLaren must be taken as more than a mere run-of-the-academy professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hes at the very least a phenomenona phenomenon whose meaning is wildly contested from every side. To some, hes a singular intellectual, a quasi-heroic figure standing up for a radical vision of critical pedagogy against the forces of reaction (as well as the fakers on the Left), while to others hes an over-wrought blow-hard spouting slogans without much substance. To the Mexican educators who created La Fundación Peter McLaren de Pedagogía Crítica hes something of a divine inspiration, while to the right-wing UCLA alumni who organized a campaign to drive him from the campus hes more than a communist threathes Satan himself, and they are determined to eliminate his devilish presence... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- William Ayers
University of Illinois at Chicago WILLIAM AYERS is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, and author of To Teach; Teaching Toward Freedom. His upcoming book, published by Beacon Press, is called Teaching The Taboo: Politics and Pedagogy in an Unjust World.
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