47 Facts About Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren was born on 1948 and is a Canadian scholar who serves as a Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies at Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, where he is Co-Director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice.

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor of Urban Education, University of California, Los Angeles, and Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership, Miami University of Ohio.

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

Peter McLaren is the author and editor of over forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters.

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

Peter McLaren is married to Yan Wang from Northeast China.

Peter McLaren has a son and daughter from previous marriages.

Peter McLaren 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.

Once I finished reading the first texts by Peter McLaren that were made available to me, I was almost certain that we belonged to an identical 'intellectual family'.

Peter McLaren is a faculty member at the Institute of Critical Pedagogy at The Global Center for Advanced Studies and lectures worldwide on education's politics.

Peter McLaren was born in Toronto, Ontario, on August 2,1948, and raised in Toronto and, for four years, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Peter McLaren is the only child of Frances Teresa Bernadette McLaren and Lawrence Omand McLaren, from Canada.

Peter McLaren's mother was a homemaker before working as a telephone operator.

Peter McLaren's father had one sister, Bonnie, who married Terry Goddard, a Second World War Royal Air Force pilot credited with helping sink the German battleship Bismark.

Peter McLaren compensated for being an only child by spending time with his many cousins and engaging in creative writing.

Peter McLaren's first writing award was during middle school, where he won top writing honours by producing a science fiction story.

Peter McLaren earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature at University of Waterloo in 1973, attended Toronto Teachers College, and went on to earn 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.

Peter McLaren left Canada in 1985 to teach at Miami University's School of Education and Allied Professions, where he spent eight years working with colleague Henry Giroux during a time when the epistemology known as critical pedagogy was gaining traction in North American schools of education.

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.

Peter McLaren found a rich transdisciplinary milieu in which to conduct his studies at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Peter McLaren remained steadfast in his interest in the contemporary themes of the Frankfurt School: social psychology in the context of a lack of revolutionary social protest in Europe and the United States; a critique of positivism and science; developing a critical theory of art and representation; an interrogation of the mass media and mass culture; investigating the production of desire and identity; and the globalization of capitalism and forms of integration in neoliberal societies.

Peter McLaren attempted through critical reading strategies to illuminate the dominant pedagogical codes of teachers as well as the normative codes within classroom cultures of students.

Peter McLaren's purpose was to create alternative readings as well as new pedagogical practices.

Peter McLaren's new turn saw him focus on the social relations of production and its relation to the production of subjectivity and protagonist agency.

Peter McLaren came to believe that postmodern theory could be quite a reactionary approach in so far as it failed to challenge with the verve and sustained effort that is demanded of the times the social relations of capitalist production and reproduction.

The more Peter McLaren began engaging in the work of Marx, and meeting social activists driven by Marxist anti-imperialist projects throughout the Americas, he no longer believed that the work on "radical democracy" convincingly demonstrated that it was superior to the Marxist problematic.

Peter McLaren believed that Marxist critique more adequately addressed the differentiated totalities of contemporary society and their historical imbrications in the world system of global capitalism.

Rather than employ the term critical pedagogy, Peter McLaren now uses the term that the British educator Paula Allman has christened revolutionary critical pedagogy.

Peter McLaren describes his current work as Marxist humanist, a term developed by Raya Dunayevskaya, who once served as Trotsky's secretary in Mexico and who developed the tradition of Marxist humanism in the US.

Peter McLaren is considered one of the architects of critical pedagogy, having been influenced early in his career by Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux.

Peter McLaren has been credited with laying the groundwork for performance studies in education with the publication of his book, Schooling as a Ritual Performance.

Currently Peter McLaren is known as one of the leading exponents of revolutionary critical pedagogy, an approach to everyday life influenced by Marxist humanist philosophy, known as a "philosophy of praxis".

Peter McLaren's work is controversial for its uncompromising politics of class struggle.

Peter McLaren is a gifted orator and social activist, and his academic writing has been both praised and criticized for its unique blend of poetry and literary tropes and cutting-edge theoretical analysis.

Critical pedagogy, as Peter McLaren develops it, seeks to analyze the possibilities for the resistance and transformation of social life, both individual and collective, personal and macropolitical.

Peter McLaren takes critical pedagogy beyond a discursive politics that sees politics as merely a text to be deconstructed and interpreted.

That is, Peter McLaren seeks to make connections between the texts that we read and those that read us in light of current modes and social relations of production and the political consequences that these connections bring about in our pedagogies, curricula, and policies.

Since 1994, Peter McLaren revised and extended some of his earlier insights in Schooling as a Ritual Performance, and Life in Schools, and other works, through an engagement with Marx and leading Marxist philosophers and theorists.

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

Peter McLaren is author of Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education which is in its fifth edition.

In 2011, Instituto Peter McLaren was established in Ensenada, Mexico.

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

Peter McLaren's works have been praised, among others, by Slavoj Zizek and Paula Allman.

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.

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