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Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy
This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes will be linked to critical educational praxis, particularly to teaching activities within urban schools. Finally, the book will develop the basis for a wider political project directed at resisting and transforming economic exploitation, cultural homogenization, political repression, and gender inequality.
Recent and widespread scholarly attention has been given to the unabated mercilessness of global capitalism. Little opposition exists as capital runs amok, unhampered and undisturbed by the tectonic upheaval that is occurring in the geopolitical landscape that has recently witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc.
As we examine education policies within the context of economic globalization, we attempt to address the extent to which the pedagogy and politics of everyday life has fallen under the sway of what we identify as cultural and economic imperialism.
Finally, the book raises a number of urgent What are the current limitations to educational reform efforts among the educational left? What are some of the problems associated with certain developments within postmodern education? How can a return to Marxist theory and revolutionary politics revitalize the educational left at a time when capitalism appears to be unstoppable? What actions need to be taken in both local and global arenas to overcome the exploitation that the globalization of capital has wreaked upon the world?
Recent and widespread scholarly attention has been given to the unabated mercilessness of global capitalism. Little opposition exists as capital runs amok, unhampered and undisturbed by the tectonic upheaval that is occurring in the geopolitical landscape that has recently witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc.
As we examine education policies within the context of economic globalization, we attempt to address the extent to which the pedagogy and politics of everyday life has fallen under the sway of what we identify as cultural and economic imperialism.
Finally, the book raises a number of urgent What are the current limitations to educational reform efforts among the educational left? What are some of the problems associated with certain developments within postmodern education? How can a return to Marxist theory and revolutionary politics revitalize the educational left at a time when capitalism appears to be unstoppable? What actions need to be taken in both local and global arenas to overcome the exploitation that the globalization of capital has wreaked upon the world?
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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Peter McLaren
104 books32 followersProfessor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (United States). He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters. His writings have been translated into 20 languages.
He is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy and for his scholarly writings on critical literacy, the sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. His scholarship and political activism have taken him throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
He is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy and for his scholarly writings on critical literacy, the sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. His scholarship and political activism have taken him throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
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January 25, 2020
Peter McLaren es uno de los exponentes más radicales de la Pedagogía Crítica. Un educador intelectual marxista que durante toda su trayectoria se ha distinguido por ser un militante crítico contra el sistema capitalista y, sus múltiples formas y fenómenos que produce. En este libro, junto con Ramin Farahmandpur -otro representante de la Pedagogía Crítica-, hacen una potente crítica a las contradicciones del capitalismo en su forma global, neoliberal e imperialista. Congruentes a su perspectiva marxista, analizan los problemas de raza, género, clase, multiculturalismo, desigualdad social, desde el antagonismo primordial que implica la lucha de clases, no sin antes hacer un ajuste de cuentas con el postmodernismo y el posmarxismo que, dicho por ellos, han sido coparticipes -aunque involuntariamente- del avance sin resistencias del capitalismo global neoliberal al dejar fuera de sus críticas a la economía política, es decir, al dejar intacto su funcionamiento, que es el motor desde donde se produce toda la tragedia humana. Finalmente, intentan reactivar, desde una pedagogía critica, de resistencia y revolucionaria, alianzas con los diferentes movimientos sociales y sectores oprimidos de la sociedad, en busca de una praxis para lograr la transformación del mundo a un socialismo democrático, el cual -con toda convicción- lo consideran la alternativa a los horrores del capitalismo global.
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