29 Facts About Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren was born on 1948 and is a Canadian-American scholar and is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy.

Peter McLaren is known for his writings on critical literacy, sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory.

Peter McLaren is a strident critic of Christian nationalism and Catholic Integralism.

Peter McLaren was born in Toronto, Ontario, on August 2,1948, and spent a brief time living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Peter McLaren 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.

When Peter McLaren's contract was not extended, he decided to pursue an academic appointment in the United States.

Peter McLaren 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, Peter McLaren was appointed Distinguished Fellow in Critical Studies at Chapman University, Orange, California, where he worked until his retirement in 2023.

Peter McLaren was co-director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice.

Peter McLaren is the honorary Director of the Center for Critical Studies in Education at Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

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

Peter McLaren converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism when he was 35 and completing his dissertation.

Subsequently, Peter McLaren became interested in Catholic social justice teaching and liberation theology.

Since then Peter McLaren's work has been expressly Catholic and is critical of Christians who do not believe in the eschaton.

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

Peter McLaren 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 Peter McLaren took inspiration from Turner.

Peter 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.

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

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

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 Educacion Inclusiva, Chile, in 2021.

Peter McLaren received the Amigo Honorifica de la Comunidad Universitaria de esta Institucion by La Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Unidad 141, Guadalajara, Mexico.

In 2005, Peter McLaren cofounded La Fundacion Peter McLaren de Pedagogia 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.

In January 2006, Peter 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.

Peter McLaren serves on the editorial board of the Ukrainian journal Philosophy of Education.

Peter McLaren is the author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of approximately forty books and monographs.

Peter McLaren's writings have been translated into over 20 languages.

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