About Peter McLaren

Peter McLaren, Professor
Urban Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, Leadership & Policy Studies
University of California at Los Angeles

McLaren received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Educational Theory from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1983.

He served as Associate Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami
University, Ohio.

Current research interests include post-colonial and postmodern theories applied to curriculum development and instruction; critical social theory and cultural studies in the development of approaches to urban school reform; the development of pedagogical theory and practice based on critical multiculturalism, critical ethnography, and critical literacy.

Articles by McLaren within this web site

Predatory Culture and the Politics of Education

La Lucha Continua



Books by Peter McLaren

Between borders: Pedagogy and the politics of cultural studies (co-edited with H. A.
Giroux), London and New York: Routledge, 1994

Critical literacy: politics, praxis, and the postmodern, Albany, 1993

Critical multiculturalism: uncommon voices in a common struggle, Westport, Conn., 1995

Critical pedagogy and predatory culture: Oppositional politics in the postmodern era,
London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle, editors Henry A. Giroux and Peter
McLaren, Albany, 1989.

Critical theory and educational research, Albany, 1995

Life in schools: An introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education
(second edition), White Plains, New York: Longman, Inc., 1994

Multicultural education, critical pedagogy and the politics of difference, Albany, 1995

Paulo Freire: a critical encounter, London, 1993

Politics of liberation: Paths from Freire (co-edited with C. Lankshear), London and New
York: Routledge, 1994

Rethinking media literacy: a critical pedagogy of representation, New York, 1995

Schooling as a ritual performance: Towards a political economy of educational symbols
and gestures (second edition) London and New York: Routledge, 1993


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How to contact Peter McLaren

mailto: mclaren@gse.ucla.edu