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No Country for Old … Middle-Aged or Young Women and … Men

Mass Murder Pedagogy in the Heartland of Democracy

Peter McLaren

The increasing tendency of Americans to harbour a growing devotion to authoritarian leaders and to find it necessary to pledge their slavish, undying fealty to Trump signals the lack of faith in democracy. It signals a watershed moment in the annals of American history and will be remembered with increasing and incandescent shame in the decades to […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). No Country for Old … Middle-Aged or Young Women and … Men: Mass Murder Pedagogy in the Heartland of Democracy. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/no-country-for-old-middle-aged-or-young-women-and-men/

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 Killing Fields of Gun Violence in the US

Henry A. Giroux

Note: This article first appeared on Truthout. It is reproduced with permission. Violence is the oxygen of authoritarianism. It is the symbolic and visceral breeding ground of fear, ignorance, greed and cruelty. It flourishes in societies marked by despair, ignorance, lies, hate and cynicism. Violence – and especially the killing of children, such as the mass […]

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Giroux, H. A. (2022). The Killing Fields of Gun Violence in the US. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/to-end-mass-shootings-we-need-to-change-the-deeper-structure-of-life-in-the-us/

Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Henry is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and has written extensively on public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory, winning many awards. His interviews on neoliberalism appear in Truthout.  Henry is past co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.  In 2002 Routledge named him as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.

 

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America’s Violence Against Children 

Social Decay, Grooming for Murder and the Fascist Right

Peter McLaren

We often ask: Where does justice reside? The question that I prefer to ask at this moment of dark, existential despair is: Where does injustice reside? It clearly resides in the rotten stench of the present moment as we attempt to understand what provoked the slayings at Uvalde that many have described as senseless. This […]

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McLaren, P. (2022). America’s Violence Against Children : Social Decay, Grooming for Murder and the Fascist Right. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/americas-violence-against-children/

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.