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Peter McLaren
McLaren in 2015
Born	(1948-08-02) August 2, 1948 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse	Yan Wang

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Waterloo University of Toronto Brock University
Thesis	Education as Ritual Performance (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Courtney
Influences	Paulo Freire Henry Giroux Emmanuel Levinas Karl Marx Paul Ricœur
Academic work
Discipline	Pedagogy
School or tradition	Critical pedagogy Marxist humanism
Institutions	Miami University University of California, Los Angeles Chapman University

Peter McLaren (born 1948) is a Canadian-American scholar and is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy. He is known for his writings on critical literacy, sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory.

McLaren is a practicing Catholic and identifies with Catholic social justice teaching and liberation theology. He is a strident critic of Christian nationalism and Catholic Integralism.

Life and Career

Peter McLaren was born in Toronto, Ontario, on August 2, 1948, and spent a brief time living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He began writing creatively in grade school.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature at University of Waterloo in 1973, attended Toronto Teachers College, and then earned a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Education, a Masters of Education at Brock University's College of Education, and a Ph.D. at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. McLaren taught elementary and middle school from 1974-1979.

After earning his doctorate in 1983, he served as a Special Lecturer in Education at Brock University, where, as a one-year sabbatical replacement, he specialized in inner-city education and language arts. When McLaren's contract was not extended, he decided to pursue an academic appointment in the United States.

McLaren taught at Miami University's School of Education and Allied Professions from 1985-1993, where he worked with Henry Giroux during a time when critical pedagogy was gaining traction in North American schools of education. McLaren also served as Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies and held the title of Renowned Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University before being recruited by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993.

In 2013, McLaren was appointed Distinguished Fellow in Critical Studies at Chapman University, Orange, California, where he worked until his retirement in 2023. He was co-director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice. He is the honorary Director of the Center for Critical Studies in Education at Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

In 2019, McLaren published an autobiographical graphic novel with artist Miles Wilson.

McLaren converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism when he was 35 and completing his dissertation. Subsequently, McLaren became interested in Catholic social justice teaching and liberation theology. Since then McLaren’s work has been expressly Catholic and is critical of Christians who do not believe that the eschaton.

McLaren believes that "all acts of violence generate forms of evil" and through evil and violence there can not be the Kingdom of God.

Academic Research

Critical pedagogy
Major works
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Critical Pedagogy Primer Learning to Labour Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life
Theorists
Paulo Freire Henry Giroux Peter McLaren bell hooks Antonia Darder Joe Kincheloe Shirley Steinberg Paul Willis Ira Shor
Pedagogy
Anti-oppressive education Abolitionist teaching Anti-bias curriculum Antipedagogy Multicultural education Teaching for social justice Humanitarian education Inclusion Public sphere pedagogy Popular education Feminist composition Ecopedagogy Queer pedagogy Critical literacy Critical consciousness Critical theory of maker education
Concepts
Praxis Hidden curriculum Consciousness raising
Related
Reconstructivism Critical theory Ecological empathy Frankfurt School Political consciousness
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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 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. On September 15, 2006 the Catedra Peter McLaren was inaugurated at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela

Pedagogy

Political beliefs

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

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. 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.

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.

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.

Books

The War in Ukraine and America. DIO Press, 2022.
Critical Pedagogy Manifesto. Teachers of the World Unite. DIO Press, 2021.
He Walks Among Us: Christian Fascism Ushering in the End of Days. DIO Press, 2020.
Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology, and Information Technology (with Petar Jandric). Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator (with M. Wilson). Myers Education Press, 2019.
Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution. Peter Lang, 2016.
Revolutionizing Pedagogy: Educating for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neo-liberalism (with S. Macrine, S., and D. Hill, Eds). Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (with A. Nocella, S. Best, S., Eds.) (2010). AK Press, 2010.
Havoc of Capitalism. Educating for Social and Environmental Justice (with G. Martin, D. Houston, D., & Suoranta, J., (Eds.). Sense Publishers, 2010.
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse" (with Sandlin, J.A.). Routledge, 2019.
Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire (with N. Jaramillo). Sense Publishers, 2007.
Rage + Hope. Peter Lang, 2006.
Capitalists and Conquerors. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism (with R. Farahmandpur). Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
Red Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy. Hampton Press, 2005.
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (with D. Hill, M. Cole, & G. Rikowski). Lexington Books, 2002.
Red Chalk (with M. Cole, D. Hill, and G. Rikowski). The Tufnell Press, 2000.
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education, 1998.
Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium. Westview Press, 1997.
Counternarratives (with H. Giroux, C. Lankshear & M. Peters). Routledge, 1997.
Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture. Routledge, 1995.
Schooling as a ritual performance. Routledge, 1986.
Cries from the corridor: The new suburban ghettos. Methuen, 1980.

Translations

Sociedad, cultura y escuela (with Henry A. Giroux) (1988)
Pedagogia crítica y postmodernidad (1992)
Hacia una pedagogía crítica de la formación de la identidad posmoderna (1993)
Pedagogía crítica, resistencia cultural y la producción del deseo (1994)
Rethinking Media Literacy (1994)
Multiculturalismo Critico (1997)
Utopias Provisorias: As Pedagogias Criticas num cenario pos-colonial (1999)
Pedagogia, poder e identidad (Spanish) (1999)
A Pedagogia da Utopia (2001)
Kriittinen Pedagogiikka (with Henry Giroux) (2001)
Pedagogia Revolucionaria Na Globalizacao (with Ramin Farahmandpur) (2002)
Pedagogia Critica: Contra o Imperio (2007)
La Pedagogia Critica Revolucionaria: El Socialismo y los Desafios Actuales (2012)

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

References

Footnotes

"Early Years | Peter McLaren, PHD".
Cruz 2013, p. 8.
^ Borg, Mayo & Sultana 1994, p. 2.
Cummings 2015, p. 358.
M. D. Smith & Rodriguez 2013, p. 101.
"Foreword to Peter McLaren's pedagogy of insurrection". 9 January 2016.
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.
Kennedy 2014.
McLaren 2015.
Macrine 2016a, pp. xi–xxi; Malott 2016.
"Faculty Profile".
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.
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.
Neary, Mike (2017). "Pedagogy of hate". Policy Futures in Education. 15 (5): 555–563. doi:10.1177/1478210317705742.
^ Eryaman 2009.
^ Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2007, pp. xvii–xxxix.
McLaren, Peter (3 November 2024). "Donald Trump Versus a Microphone: A Head Bobbing Performance". LA Progressive. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
"UNdeC: El filósofo Peter Mclaren recibió el título de Doctor Honoris Causa". 22 October 2019.
"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
"La Fundacion McLaren de Pedagogía Critica". Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2006.
""Online Trump worship has offline consequences": MAGA makes plans for "apocalyptic battle"". 4 March 2024.
Wiener, Jon (26 January 2006). "UCLA's Dirty Thirty". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
"Campus Activist Goes Right at ‘Em", The Los Angeles Times, 22 January 2006: B1 and B16
"Peter McLaren | Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education".
"Chapman democracy activist offers a radical critique of capitalism". The Orange Country Register. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
McLaren, Peter (16 March 2007). "The Despoiling of the American Mind". MRZine.
Smith, David Geoffrey (2009), Interchange, 40(1), 93–117. DOI: 10.1007/s10780-008-9082-z
Peter McLaren, Pedagogy of Insurrection, p. 53–54.
"Mr Rufo's Renegades and the Hermeneutics of Evil". 3 October 2023.
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.
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
"Communism". 27 November 2014.
Davis, Creston (8 March 2015). "An Interview with a Revolutionary, Professor Peter McLaren". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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.
Take a wild ride into Chapman Professor Peter McLaren's mind The Orange County Register (subscription required)
McLaren, P. & Jandrić, P. (2020) Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology, and Information Technology, Bloomsbury, p. 36
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
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
"Instituto Mc Laren de Pedagogia Critica". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
Pedagogy of Insurrection. 18 February 2016.
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.
Kennedy 2014; McLaren 2015; Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2007.
"The Eschaton is Now: José Porfirio Miranda Against the Catholic Right's Anti-Woke Christianity". 15 December 2023.
Career section is based on the following sources: Eryaman 2009; Macrine 2016b; Pruyn & Huerta-Charles 2005; Reitz 2013; D. G. Smith 2009.
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.
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.
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.
"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

Borg, Carmel; Mayo, Peter; Sultana, Ronald (1994). "Revolution and Reality: An Interview with Peter McLaren". Education. 5 (2): 2–12. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
Cruz, Ana L. (2013). "Paulo and Nita: Sharing Life, Love and Intellect – An Introduction". International Journal of Critical Pedagogy. 5 (1): 5–10. ISSN 2157-1074. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
Cummings, Jordy (2015). "The Abode of Educational Production: An Interview with Peter McLaren". Alternate Routes. 26: 354–375. ISSN 1923-7081. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
Eryaman, Mustafa Yunus, ed. (2009). Peter McLaren, Education, and the Struggle for Liberation. New York: Hampton Press.
Kennedy, Lynda (2014). "Peter McLaren: Intellectual Instigator". In Totten, Samuel; Pedersen, Jon E. (eds.). Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: An Annotated Bibliography. Volume 4: Critical Pedagogues and Their Pedagogical Theories. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers. pp. 237–256.
Macrine, Sheila (2016a). Foreword. This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader. By McLaren, Peter. Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M. (eds.). Vol. 1. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers.
Macrine, Sheila (2016b). Introduction. This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader. By McLaren, Peter. Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M. (eds.). Vol. 1. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers.
Malott, Curry Stephenson (2016). "The Dialectics of This Fist: A Preface". This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader. By McLaren, Peter. Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M. (eds.). Vol. 1. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers. pp. xxiii–xxiv.
McLaren, Peter (1995). Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture. London: Routledge.
McLaren, Peter (2015). "Self and Social Formation and the Political Project of Teaching: Some Reflections". In Porfilio, Brad J.; Ford, Derek R. (eds.). Leaders in Critical Pedagogy: Narratives for Understanding and Solidarity. Leaders in Educational Studies. Vol. 8. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers. pp. 127–139. doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-166-3_10. ISBN 978-94-6300-166-3.
Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M., eds. (2005). Teaching Peter McLaren: Paths of Dissent. New York: Peter Lang Publications.
Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M. (2007). "Introduction: Teaching Peter McLaren; The Scholar and This Volume". In Pruyn, Marc; Huerta-Charles, Luis M. (eds.). Teaching Peter McLaren: Paths of Dissent. New York: Peter Lang Publications.
Reitz, Charles (2013). Crisis of Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Smith, David Geoffrey (2009). "Engaging Peter McLaren and the New Marxism in Education". Interchange. 40 (1): 93–117. doi:10.1007/s10780-008-9082-z. ISSN 1573-1790. S2CID 144867904.
Smith, Matthew David; Rodriguez, Arturo (2013). "Peter McLaren". In Kirylo, James D. (ed.). A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. Transgressions. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers. pp. 101–104. doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-374-4_26. ISBN 978-94-6209-374-4. ISSN 2214-9740.

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