Dear Criticals
 
Please find below links to four reviews about the work of Peter McLaren,
the leading American educational theorist and practitioner whose groundbreaking
work constantly challenges the status quo of global capitalism. His work
covers a wide range of topics, from film criticism, to hip-hop, to the pedagogy
of Che Guevara. His writing have been translated into eleven languages. McLaren
is a professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
at the University of California, Los Angeles.
 
 
Teaching and the struggle for justice
Marc Pruyn and Luis Huerta-Charles have assembled an impressive community
of well-known scholars to contribute to this timely book. Teaching Peter
McLaren's work is absolutely crucial in the face of increasing mass injustice
in a capitalist world where the tentacles of globalisation spread wider and
wider.
http://www.socialistfuture.org.uk/msf/articles/reviews/PMcL_teaching.htm
 

Challenging the status quo 
Not only does this book have a fearsome cover, the message it disseminates
is equally chilling. Peter McLaren has authored this book at a time when
it seems that the disease of capitalism is spreading and it is legitimised
by the ideological apparatus of neo-liberalism. McLaren not only unpacks
the language of the status quo, and explains the complexities of its matrix,
but he tears apart its propaganda. 
http://www.socialistfuture.org.uk/msf/articles/reviews/PMcL_challenge.htm

 
Untangling the lies
In Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical
Pedagogy, Peter McLaren and co-author Ramin Farahmandpur flag the key issues
regarding the desperate state of the world and role that capital plays. 
http://www.socialistfuture.org.uk/msf/articles/reviews/PMcL_untangling.htm

 
Education theory as a weapon of liberation
Nowadays it is becoming increasingly rare to find intellectually stimulating
works that also engage in political committed analysis of modern societies.
Peter McLaren and his companeras y companeros have given us a compelling
and high-quality book that manages to balance both of these elements skilfully
and with great success.
http://www.socialistfuture.org.uk/msf/articles/reviews/PMcL_education.htm

The reviewers are Alpesh Maisuria and Spyros Themelis
 
Best wishes
Glenn Rikowski
School of Education
University College Northampton
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