Peter McLaren

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Peter McLaren
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McLaren in 2015
Born (1948-08-02) August 2, 1948 (age 76)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SpouseYan Wang
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis Education as Ritual Performance (1984)
Doctoral advisor Richard Courtney [1]
Influences

1980–1993

After graduating, McLaren focused on educational theory, specifically exploring ethnography, pedagogy, curriculum, and multiculturalism. He was inspired by his undergraduate work with Elizabethan drama and William Morris, an English artist and socialist. Victor Turner, a symbolic anthropologist, was contemporaneously conducting research on rituals and how they related to dramaturgical theory and anthropology, and McLaren took inspiration from Turner. His first major publication, Schooling as a Ritual Performance Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures in 1986, was based on his Ph.D. dissertation. [15]

McLaren's work from 1984 to 1994 closely stuck with the teachings of the Frankfurt School of social theory and critical philosophy. Each of McLaren's scholarly projects attempted to explore the construction of identity in school contexts within a neoliberal society. [15]

1994–present

McLaren shifted focus after 1994 to critique the political economy, focusing on the social relations of production and its relation to the production of subjectivity and protagonist agency. During this time, he spent time in Latin America working with Chavistas in Venezuela and with labor and union leaders in Mexico and Colombia. [16]

McLaren began engaging with Marxist theory after meeting anti-imperialist activists in Latin America and began including aspects of it into his work. [16]

McLaren contributes to independent news outlets such as the LA Progressive. [17]

Honorary doctorates

Peter McLaren was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lapland, Finland, in 2004, by Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2010, by the Universidad Nacional de Chilecito in La Rioja, Argentina, and the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Educación Inclusiva (CELEI), Chile, in 2021. [18] [19] He also received the Amigo Honorifica de la Comunidad Universitaria de esta Institucion by La Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Unidad 141, Guadalajara, Mexico.

La Fundacion McLaren de Pedagogía Critica

In 2005, McLaren cofounded La Fundacion McLaren de Pedagogía Critica with Sergio Quiroz Miranda, to promote critical pedagogy in Latin America. [20] On September 15, 2006 the Catedra Peter McLaren was inaugurated at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela

Pedagogy

The school building (in La Escuela Normal Superior de Neiva) named after Peter McLaren in Neiva, Colombia La Escuela Normal Superior de Neiva Colombia.jpg
The school building (in La Escuela Normal Superior de Neiva) named after Peter McLaren in Neiva, Colombia

Political beliefs

McLaren has been a fierce critic of Trumpism, stating that "Trump has put democracy on the slaughter bench of history." [21]

In January 2006, McLaren was named as one of the faculty in the Bruin Alumni Association's controversial "Dirty Thirty" project, which listed UCLA's most politically extreme professors. [22] The list was compiled by a former UCLA graduate student, Andrew Jones, who had previously been fired by his mentor David Horowitz for pressuring "students to file false reports about leftists" and for stealing Horowitz's mailing list of potential contributors to fund research for attacks on left-wing professors. [23]

Following Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, McLaren began publishing books and articles surrounding the war. He serves on the editorial board of the Ukrainian journal Philosophy of Education. [24]

Bibliography

McLaren is the author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of approximately forty books and monographs. His other work has appeared in scholarly journals and professional magazines internationally. His writings have been translated into over 20 languages. [25]

Books

Translations

McLaren debuted as a poet with his poem "The Despoiling of the American Mind" in MRZine. [26]

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References

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Early Years | Peter McLaren, PHD".
  2. ↑ Cruz 2013, p. 8.
  3. 1 2 Borg, Mayo & Sultana 1994, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Cummings 2015, p. 358.
  5. ↑ M. D. Smith & Rodriguez 2013, p. 101.
  6. ↑ "Foreword to Peter McLaren's pedagogy of insurrection". 9 January 2016.
  7. ↑ McLaren, P. (2016). Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution. Peter Lang; McLaren, Peter (2020). He Walks Among Us: Christian Fascism Ushering in the End of Days. DIO Press.
  8. ↑ Kennedy 2014.
  9. ↑ McLaren 2015.
  10. ↑ Macrine 2016a, pp. xi–xxi; Malott 2016.
  11. ↑ "Faculty Profile".
  12. ↑ McLaren, Peter (1986). "Making Catholics: The Ritual Production of Conformity in a Catholic Junior High School". Journal of Education. 168 (2): 55–77. doi:10.1177/002205748616800206.
  13. ↑ McLaren, Peter (n.d.). "The Eschaton is Now: José Porfirio Miranda Against the Catholic Right's Anti-Woke Christianity". Pesa Agora . Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  14. ↑ Neary, Mike (2017). "Pedagogy of hate". Policy Futures in Education. 15 (5): 555–563. doi:10.1177/1478210317705742.
  15. 1 2 Eryaman 2009.
  16. 1 2 Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2007, pp. xvii–xxxix.
  17. ↑ McLaren, Peter (3 November 2024). "Donald Trump Versus a Microphone: A Head Bobbing Performance". LA Progressive. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  18. ↑ "UNdeC: El filósofo Peter Mclaren recibió el título de Doctor Honoris Causa". 22 October 2019.
  19. ↑ "Ceremonia de Investidura a Peter McLaren como Doctor Honoris Causa de CELEI". YouTube . 14 November 2021., https://www.ulapland.fi/news/Lapin-yliopistoon-14-uutta-kunniatohtoria/i5psmaft/b72292e4-1e76-492c-8ee6-596bc7d6b674
  20. ↑ "La Fundacion McLaren de Pedagogía Critica". Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2006.
  21. ↑ ""Online Trump worship has offline consequences": MAGA makes plans for "apocalyptic battle"". 4 March 2024.
  22. ↑ Wiener, Jon (26 January 2006). "UCLA's Dirty Thirty". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  23. ↑ "Campus Activist Goes Right at ‘Em", The Los Angeles Times, 22 January 2006: B1 and B16
  24. ↑ "Peter McLaren | Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education".
  25. ↑ "Chapman democracy activist offers a radical critique of capitalism". The Orange Country Register. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  26. ↑ McLaren, Peter (16 March 2007). "The Despoiling of the American Mind". MRZine.
  27. ↑ Smith, David Geoffrey (2009), Interchange, 40(1), 93–117. DOI: 10.1007/s10780-008-9082-z
  28. ↑ Peter McLaren, Pedagogy of Insurrection, p. 53–54.
  29. ↑ "Mr Rufo's Renegades and the Hermeneutics of Evil". 3 October 2023.
  30. ↑ Baldacchino, John (2017). "The travails of criticality: Understanding Peter McLaren's revolutionary vocation. An article review of Peter McLaren, Pedagogy of Insurrection (New York: Peter Lang, 2015)". Policy Futures in Education. 15 (5): 574–589. doi:10.1177/1478210317719813.
  31. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-18-me-ucla18-story.html, https://www.npr.org/2006/01/19/5162955/group-offers-money-for-reports-on-left-wing-faculty
  32. ↑ "Communism". 27 November 2014.
  33. ↑ Davis, Creston (8 March 2015). "An Interview with a Revolutionary, Professor Peter McLaren". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  34. ↑ McLaren, Peter (27 September 2019). "Teaching Against the Grain: A Conversation between the Editors of the Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity and Peter McLaren on the Importance of Critical Pedagogy in Law School". Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity. 7 (1). doi:10.69970/gjlhd.v7i1.1173.
  35. ↑ Take a wild ride into Chapman Professor Peter McLaren's mind The Orange County Register (subscription required)
  36. ↑ McLaren, P. & Jandrić, P. (2020) Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology, and Information Technology, Bloomsbury, p. 36
  37. ↑ Series Editor’s Introduction: ‘At the Beginning It Was the Commodity’: What Happened to Critical Theory? In Peter McLaren, Critical Theory: Rituals, Pedagogies and Resistance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, p. 12
  38. ↑ UCLA Education Professor Peter McLaren's 'Life in Schools' Ranked in Top 12 Significant Writings of Foreign Authors Archived 2005-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
  39. ↑ "Instituto Mc Laren de Pedagogia Critica". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  40. ↑ Pedagogy of Insurrection. 18 February 2016.
  41. ↑ Ford, Derek R.; Alexander, Rebecca (2020). "Preface: A collection of raw materials for re-imaginings". In Pruyn, Marc; Malott, Curry; Huerta-Charles, Luis (eds.). Tracks to Infinity: The Long Road to Justice: The Peter McLaren Reader (Volume II). Charlotte: Information Age Publishing. pp. xvi. ISBN   978-1-64113-662-4.
  42. ↑ Kennedy 2014; McLaren 2015; Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2007.
  43. ↑ "The Eschaton is Now: José Porfirio Miranda Against the Catholic Right's Anti-Woke Christianity". 15 December 2023.
  44. ↑ Career section is based on the following sources: Eryaman 2009; Macrine 2016b; Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2005; Reitz 2013; D. G. Smith 2009.
  45. ↑ McLaren, Peter (19 February 2009). "Being, Becoming and Breaking-Free: Peter McLaren and the Pedagogy of Liberation". Radical Notes. Interviewed by Kumar, Ravi. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  46. ↑ Pozo, Michael (2003). "Toward a Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy: An Interview with Peter McLaren". St. John's University Humanities Review. Vol. 2, no. 1. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  47. ↑ McLaren, Peter (2013). "Education as Class Warfare: An Interview with Scholar/Author Peter McLaren". Praxis. Vol. 17, no. 2. pp. 90–101. ISSN   2313-934X . Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  48. ↑ "What Unites Us - Can scholars cross ideological divides to engage in a rich, respectful dialogue? This seems like a good time to find out". 15 March 2017.

Works cited

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