Capitalists and Conquerors by McLaren, Peter; McLaren, Peter;

A Critical Pedagogy against Empire

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Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date of Publication 31 March 2005
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9780742541931
Binding Paperback
No. of pages368 pages
Size 227x166x20 mm
Weight 472 g
Language English

Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

In the dismal wake of the re-election of George W. Bush to the most powerful office in the world?a political scandal made possible by a resurgence of religious fundamentalism and Paleolithic conservatism, a hysterical fear of terrorism, and manufactured ignorance through corporate-controlled media and enfeebled school systems?the most urgent and fundamental issue of the day is advancing a radical pedagogy that can promote critical thinking, autonomy, and radical democracy. In this timely new work, Peter McLaren once again demonstrates why he is a leading critical theorist and a beacon of intelligence in dark times.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Capitalists and Conquers: An Introduction Part 3 Part 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 Part 6 Part 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 Part 10 Part 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

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