TOPIC:
Neo-liberalism
and the End of Politics: Towards a Contraband Pedagogy
Brief Biography
Peter McLaren is Professor, Graduate School
of Education and Information Studies, University of California,
Los Angeles, in the Division of Urban Schooling. A former elementary
school teacher and community activist from Toronto, Canada, he
began his teaching career at Brock University in St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada. In 1984, after receiving his Ph.D. from The
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,
in 1983. In 1985 he began teaching a Miami University of Ohio
and was appointed Renowned Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University's
School of Education and Allied Professions in 1990, where he
also served as Director of the Center for Education and Cultural
Studies. He has been teaching at UCLA since 1993. Professor McLaren
has authored and edited over 30 books on critical pedagogy, the
sociology of education, critical literacy, critical ethnography,
cultural studies and social theory. His most recent books include
Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the
Social Foundations of Education, 3rd edition, (Longman, Inc.,
1997); Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture (Routledge,
1995); (with Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear and Michael Peters)
Counternarratives (Routledge, 1997); Revolutionary
Multiculturalism (Westview Press, 1997); Schooling as
a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational
Symbols and Gestures, 3rd edition, Rowman and Littlefield,
1999) and Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). Professor McLaren lectures worldwide
on the politics of liberation. His writings have been translated
into twelve languages.
