April 22, 2004
UCLA’s Peter McLaren to speak
Professor Peter McLaren of the University of California at Los Angeles will give a lecture titled Capitalists and Conquerors: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Post-Democratic Times at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6, in Kane 110. A workshop on the same topic will follow at 1 p.m. the next day in the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202.
The lecture is sponsored by the UW Practical Pedagogy Colloquium and is the final event in a series of talks titled “Engaging the Culture of Power in and Out of the Classroom.”
McLaren is a faculty member in the UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Services, in its Division of Urban Studies. He is the author or editor of about 35 books, most recently Schooling as a Ritual Performance, Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture, Revolutionary Multiculturalism and Che Guevara, Paulo Friere and the Pedagogy of Revolution.
McLaren says his talk will “provide a rational for educators to adopt an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist and gender-balanced approach” to teaching.
Professor James Banks, director of the Center for Multicultural Education, will introduce McLaren. Professor Juan Guerra of the English Department will lead the workshop discussion on May 7. Those wishing to participate in the workshop should reserve space by calling the Simpson Center at 206-543-3920 or e-mailing uwch@u.washington.edu.
