Critical Pedagogy and Marxism

by McLaren, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781441113542
• ISBN10: 1441113541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-06-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Critical Pedagogy has clear origins in Marxist philosophy. Here, Peter McLaren traces its lineage and puts Marxism back into contemporary Critical Pedagogy as an informative philosophy. Often the notion of "Marxism" creates fear and doubt from those who hear the word. This book explains Marxism for contemporary educators and readers, and illustrates the importance of understanding production and consumption in today's society. McLaren calls for a renewed engagement with (and challenge to) capital by means of a critical revolutionary pedagogy, reinvigorating our social imagination which largely has been dormant since the successful assault on Keynesian welfare state capitalism that took place in the 1980s. McLaren argues that critical pedagogy, at its very root, aims for a larger, more sustained and focused project of building alternative and oppositional forms of sustainable environments, of learning environments, and of revolutionary political environments. From the author of the best-selling Life in Schools, this is an important book that will provide all responsible educators with the necessary context to negotiate our capital-driven school systems.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction and Contextualization of MarxismChapter Two: Different Approaches to Critical PedagogyChapter Three: Development of Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and its Relation to Marxist TheoryChapter Four: Rethinking of the Role of Schools, including the Role of the UniversityChapter Five: The Role of Education in Today's World BibliographyIndex