Tag Archives: Freire

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The Dialectics of Revolution

Resisting the Trumpocene

Peter McLaren
Revolution contains love

In the realm of philosophical discourse, dialectical philosophy stands apart from the individualistic rationality championed by the Enlightenment. Unlike the Enlightenment’s emphasis on solitary logical analysis, dialectics asserts that entities can only be comprehended in their relational context, resisting isolation as independently existing entities. This philosophical dichotomy is pivotal for the discourse at hand. To delve […]

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McLaren, P. (2024). The Dialectics of Revolution: Resisting the Trumpocene. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-dialectics-of-revolution/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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The Politic Rhetoric of Bloodbath Politics

Freire, Trump and the Challenge of Meaning

Peter McLaren

In 2020, during a remarkable display of spiritual hysteria, Paula White, the wackadoodle spiritual advisor to former President Trump, embarked on a proclamation that reverberated both with a maddening celestial invocation and unhinged theological assertion influenced by a ‘Moonies cult’ revelation operating under the banner of the New Apostolic Reformation. Utilising a staccato rhythm reminiscent […]

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McLaren, P. (2024). The Politic Rhetoric of Bloodbath Politics: Freire, Trump and the Challenge of Meaning. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-politic-rhetoric-of-bloodbath-politics/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Decolonisation isn’t pretty or complicated

When violence is humanising

Derek R. Ford

Protest to free Palestine! (Answer Indiana, Oct 8 2023) The first pro-Palestine demonstration called after the latest counterattack by a host of Palestinian forces on October 7, endorsed by Students for Justice in Palestine, the ANSWER Coalition and others, put matters very plainly: Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, […]

Derek R. Ford

Derek R. Ford is a teacher, organiser and educational theorist who serves as associate professor of education studies at DePauw University and as an instructor with The People’s Forum. Their work has appeared in a range of academic journals, including Critical Education and Cultural Studies, as well as popular outlets like Black Agenda Report, Monthly Review, Peace, Land and Bread and the International Magazine. They also hosted the popular podcast series Reading ‘Capital’ with Comrades.

They’ve published eight monographs on pedagogy and revolutionary struggles, the latest of which is Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning and the Sensations of Struggle (2023). Their organising and research on the pedagogy of anti-imperialism, anti-racism and internationalist struggles recently appeared in International Magazine and Black Agenda Report and featured on episodes of CovertAction Bulletin and Revolutionary Left Radio. They are the editor of Liberation School and a contributing editor at the Hampton Institute, as well as an organiser with the Indianapolis Liberation Center, ANSWER Coalition, the International Manifesto Group and others. You can reach them at derekford@depauw.edu

Recent works by Derek include:

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Challenging the Anti-Kingdom

The Mortgaging of QAnon’s False Optimism

Peter McLaren

Theologian Jon Sobrino has turned to the theological-idolactric structure of reality to distinguish the Anti-Kingdom from God’s Kingdom. These two ‘conflictually disjunctive’ Kingdoms are, according to Sobrino, mutually exclusive and stand in stark opposition to one another. Refashioning these terms inside a Freirean thematic universe provides a simple yet timely heuristic for approaching Freire’s work […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). Challenging the Anti-Kingdom: The Mortgaging of QAnon’s False Optimism. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/challenging-the-anti-kingdom/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Pushing boundaries

Peter McLaren on the importance of critical pedagogy inside and outside the classroom

Peter McLaren and Research Outreach

Could you explain critical pedagogy, a philosophy of education and social movement? Critical pedagogy has become a broad umbrella term that unites a disparate compendium of ideas from critical social theory generated since the 1970s. Numerous tributaries of educational theory and practice have grown out of the vast reservoir of critical educational thought, and these tributaries have […]

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McLaren, P., & Outreach, R. (2022). Pushing boundaries: Peter McLaren on the importance of critical pedagogy inside and outside the classroom. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/pushing-boundaries/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Too Strong to Submit, Too Weak to Prevail

The Challenge of Supporting Ukraine in a Time of Crisis

Peter McLaren

If, in some ways, the strength of Ukraine is made perfect in its weakness, then how can it prevail against the Russian imperialist leviathan? With support from another imperialist mega-state, the United States, of course. But does such support justify the position of the campist left who might offer a limp, eye-wink condemnation of Russia’s […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). Too Strong to Submit, Too Weak to Prevail: The Challenge of Supporting Ukraine in a Time of Crisis. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/too-strong-to-submit-too-weak-to-prevail/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Critical Pedagogy and the Future

Overcoming Fascism’s God Complex and the Attack on Reason

Peter McLaren

Columns by David Badash and Tom Boggioni were published recently in RawStory. One was about Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, and the other about the Arizona Republican Party’s nominee for governor, Kari Lake. Both were frightening. Yes, frightening in the sense that they reveal the extent to which Christian nationalism has poisoned America’s bloodstream. I’ve […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). Critical Pedagogy and the Future: Overcoming Fascism’s God Complex and the Attack on Reason. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/critical-pedagogy-and-the-future/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Averting One’s Eyes

The War in Ukraine and the Politics of Remembrance

Peter McLaren

I have argued in The War in Ukraine and America that a negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine would be welcome. And that the US should not attempt to prolong the war in the service of its own geopolitical interests since the war is, among being a noble struggle by Ukraine to win its sovereignty […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). Averting One’s Eyes: The War in Ukraine and the Politics of Remembrance. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/averting-ones-eyes/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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Saint Oscar Romero, Paulo Freire and Liberation Theology

Smithing a Sword Against MAGA Darkness

Peter McLaren

Critical pedagogy is the bloomery in which educational swords are forged against injustice. This fire pit or furnace located in the smithy is ignited by the faithful, powering the cementation process that results in the blade. Oscar Romero, Paulo Freire and other important educational workers operate the bellows, and liberation theology delineates the battlegrounds where […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). Saint Oscar Romero, Paulo Freire and Liberation Theology: Smithing a Sword Against MAGA Darkness. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/saint-oscar-romero-paulo-freire-and-liberation-theology/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

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The War in Ukraine, a Shattered Trust

Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Justice

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren and Ernesto Cardenal (Caracas Venezuela, c. 2005) We can acknowledge the wariness sown in the Russian state after NATO’s dangerous incursion into Eastern Europe and the Baltics since 1991, in clear violation of a commitment given to Russia’s leaders as the Soviet Union was crumbling into a dark vortex of disassembly. This incursion […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). The War in Ukraine, a Shattered Trust: Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Justice. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-war-in-ukraine-a-shattered-trust/

Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren is Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. From 2013-2023 he served as Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, The Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, USA.

Ideas

The psychedelic renaissance and education

Samuel Douglas

The ‘psychedelic renaissance,’ so-called because of the renewed psychiatric interest in these mind-altering substances, is about to explode. Billions of investment dollars are flowing into the corporations that hope to develop novel therapies and medications based on psychedelics. Multiple clinical trials are exploring the efficacy of psilocybin, the active constituent of magic mushrooms, in relieving […]

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Douglas, S. (2022). The psychedelic renaissance and education. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/ideas/the-psychedelic-renaissance-and-education/
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Samuel Douglas

Samuel Douglas is a casual academic at the University of Newcastle and, over the past 15 years, has taught professional ethics in a range of degree programs there. As well as his academic role, Samuel volunteers as President of the Australian Psychedelic Society, a charity that supports psychedelic research, education and advocacy for the benefit of the community.
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Paulo Freire: For a Pedagogy of the Wrath of the Oppressed

Gina Thésée

Who are the “oppressed” in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed? All over the world, these are the damned of the earth; those colonized from overseas lands; those battered, raped or feminized women; those proletarians exploited, disqualified or invalidated; these populations bombarded, starved and driven out; those discriminated, marginalized or excluded people; those children unloved, […]

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Thésée, G. (2021). Paulo Freire: For a Pedagogy of the Wrath of the Oppressed. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/paulo-freire-for-a-pedagogy-of-the-wrath-of-the-oppressed/

Gina Thésée

Gina Thesee (thesee.gina@uqam.ca)is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Quebec à Montreal (UQAM), and is also Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education. She is interested in the socio-educational contexts related mainly to colonization, culture, ethnicity, gender and race. Her theoretical framework for transformative and emancipatory education is rooted in critical perspectives, and borrows from diverse critical currents, such as anti-colonialism, antiracism, democracy, environmentalism, feminism, indigeneity or transculturalism.

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The Humility of Paulo Freire

Paul R. Carr

I encountered Paulo Freire’s work in 1990 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. I read the Pedagogy of the Oppressed in a course that compared Freire’s work with that of Gandhi, Cabral, Nyerere and Guevara, a wonderful mélange of thoughts and thinkers who sought to provide counter-hegemonic visions […]

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Carr, P. R. (2021). The Humility of Paulo Freire. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-humility-of-paulo-freire/

Paul R. Carr

Paul R. Carr is a Full Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada, and is also the Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT). His research focuses on political sociology, with specific threads related to democracy, global citizenship, the environment, intercultural relations, and transformative change in education.

Ideas

Ecopedagogy

Greg Misiaszek

Ecopedagogy is critical, transformative education for praxis that aims at ending socio-environmental injustices and the human dominance of Nature, countering teaching that separates social and environmental violence, and distances us, as humans, from the rest of nature. Plural in definition, I argue, with others, the concept of ecopedagogies emerged from Paulo Freire’s work on popular […]

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Misiaszek, G. (2020). Ecopedagogy. PESA Agora. Retrieved from https://pesaagora.com/ideas/ecopedagogy/
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Greg Misiaszek

Greg W. Misiaszek is an Assistant Professor of educational theories at Beijing Normal University (BNU) and Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA.