Capitalists and Conquerors (eBook)

A Critical Pedagogy against Empire

Peter McLaren (Autor)

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2005
368 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-7253-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a scathing critique of the Bush Jr. administration and its drive for world domination, while also challenging conservative and liberal positions on global capitalism, the war in Iraq, the concept of democracy and political agency, and the role of public schooling. Capitalists and Conquerors offers readers a bold new socialist vision upon which to build an alternative to capitalism.

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Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community. In this volume Peter McLaren addresses some of the most daunting political challenges of the current times, including the globalization of capitalism, the United States' drive towards world domination, strategies, tactics and models of resistance to neoliberalism and the ravages of empire-building, the role of the educator as a social agent and public citizen, the purposes and possibilities of public schooling, and the struggle for socialism. As a Marxist-humanist philosopher and social theorist, McLaren is able to offer new philosophical premises and socialist principles for building an alternative to capitalism. The passion, poetry and fierce political conviction for which McLaren is known is very much present in this volume.

Autor

A renowned Marxist-humanist philosopher and social theorist, and one of the architects of the field that has come to be known internationally as critical pedagogy, Peter McLaren is one of the most influential and respected educationalists in the world today. A professor of urban education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, he is the author and editor of over forty books that have been translated into fifteen languages.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Capitalists and Conquers: An Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter I: The Future of Critical Pedagogy Chapter 4 Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization Chapter 5 Revolutionary Pedagogy in Postrevolutionary Times: Rethinking the Political Economy of Critical Education Chapter 6 Chapter II: On Class, Culture, and Difference Chapter 7 Paul Willis, Class Consciousness, and Critical Pedagogy: Toward a Socialist Future Chapter 8 After the Box People: The Labor-Capital Relation as Class Constitution and Its Consequences for Marxist Educational Theory and Human Resistance Chapter 9 Revolutionary Ecologies: Ecosocialism and Critical Pedagogy Chapter 10 Chapter III: Neocons and Neoliberalism Chapter 11 The Legend of the Bush Gang: Imperialism, War, and Propaganda Chapter 12 The Dialectics of Terrorism: A Marxist Riposte Chapter 13 God's Cowboy Warrior: Chrisitianity, Globalization, and the False Prophets of Imperialism Chapter 14 Postscript

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Zivilverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-7253-6 / 0742572536
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-7253-9 / 9780742572539