Life in schools : an introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education / Peter McLaren.

By:

McLaren, Peter, 1948-

Language: English Publication details: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2003.Description: 311 pg̀ina ; 24 cmISBN:

0205351182

LOC classification:

M478l 2003

Contents:

Summary: This work integrates the author's Cries from the Corridor, a 1980 collection of diary entries written when he was a school teacher in a working-class and immigrant Canadian neighborhood, with reflections on the fundamental contradictions of capitalist schooling in North America. The author provides a socio-political context for understanding racism, sexism, and homophobia and helps teachers challenge capitalist schooling by empowering their students with a critical ideology and a set of political strategies. McLaren, known for his original contributions to educational theory and for his political activism, teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of 35 books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	M478l 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000199022

This work integrates the author's Cries from the Corridor, a 1980 collection of diary entries written when he was a school teacher in a working-class and immigrant Canadian neighborhood, with reflections on the fundamental contradictions of capitalist schooling in North America. The author provides a socio-political context for understanding racism, sexism, and homophobia and helps teachers challenge capitalist schooling by empowering their students with a critical ideology and a set of political strategies. McLaren, known for his original contributions to educational theory and for his political activism, teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of 35 books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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