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Overview

Peter McLaren is affiliated with Chapman University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and computer science, focusing particularly on education and information systems, as well as connections to sociology, political science, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize topics such as digital education and society, critical and liberation pedagogy, misinformation and its impacts, COVID-19 and mental health, higher education practices and engagement, global education and multiculturalism, and adult and continuing education.

Among recent publications authored by Peter McLaren are:

  • Revolutionary critical pedagogy and critical global citizenship education, 2022, Citizenship Teaching and Learning
  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19, 2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Viral modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the 'bioinformational' paradigm, 2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • A viral theory of post-truth, 2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion, 2020, Postdigital Science and Education

Peter McLaren has frequently collaborated with several scholars in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Petar Jandrić
  • Michael A. Peters
  • Marek Tesař
  • Liz Jackson
  • Ronald Barnett

Their work has appeared in a range of academic venues, with multiple publications in these sources:

  • Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Postdigital Science and Education
  • Brill's Encyclopedia of Critical Understanding in Education
  • Citizenship Teaching and Learning
  • Policy Futures in Education

In book publications, Peter McLaren has contributed to titles under Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, including "Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education

    Peter McLaren

  • Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research

    Joe L. Kincheloe;Peter L. McLaren

  • Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

    Henry A. Giroux;Paulo Freire;Peter McLaren

  • Schooling as a ritual performance: Towards a political economy of educational symbols and gestures

    Peter McLaren

  • Critical pedagogy and predatory culture : oppositional politics in a postmodern era

    Peter McLaren

  • Critical pedagogy and predatory culture

    Peter McLaren

  • Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts

    Peter McLaren

  • Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement: The Case for Democratic Schooling

    Henry A. Giroux;Peter McLaren

  • Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution

    Peter McLaren

  • Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

    Henry A. Giroux;Peter L. McLaren

  • Critical Pedagogy and Qualitative Research

    Peter McLaren;J Kincheloe;Steinberg

  • Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies Of Dissent For The New Millennium

    Peter McLaren

  • Between Borders : Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

    Henry A. Giroux;Peter McLaren

  • Pedagogía crítica y cultura depredadora

    Peter McLaren

  • Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference

    Christine E. Sleeter;Peter McLaren

  • Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter

    Peter McLaren;Peter Leonard

  • White terror and oppositional agency : Towards a critical multiculturalism

    Peter McLaren

  • Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy

    Peter McLaren;Ramin Farahmandpur

  • Critical literacy : politics, praxis, and the postmodern

    Colin Lankshear;Peter McLaren;Maxine Greene

  • Los profesores como intelectuales: hacia una pedagogía crítica del aprendizaje

    Henry A. Giroux;Peter McLaren;Isidro Arias;Paulo Freire

  • Critical pedagogy: where are we now?

    Peter McLaren

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry A. Giroux
Henry A. Giroux McMaster University
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Joe L. Kincheloe
Joe L. Kincheloe McGill University
Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire Federal University of Pernambuco
Ronald Barnett
Ronald Barnett University College London
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley
Christine E. Sleeter
Christine E. Sleeter California State University, Monterey Bay
Michael W. Apple
Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin–Madison
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University

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