Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy for a Socialist Society: A Manifesto

Authors

Peter McLaren, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2011

Abstract

"As advocates of revolutionary critical pedagogy, we stand at the turning point in this process. Critical pedagogy is an approach that we have chosen as a necessary (albeit insufficient) vehicle for transforming the world. The work that we do has been adapted from the pathfinding contributions of the late Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, whose development of pedagogies of the oppressed helped to lay the foundations for approaches (feminist, post-structuralist, Marxist) to teaching and learning that utilizes the life experiences of students in and outside of traditional classrooms to build spaces of dialogue and dialectical thinking. We have renamed our critical pedagogy, revolutionary critical pedagogy. We have done so because we believe that dialogical approaches to teaching can help to create a critical citizenry capable of analyzing and transforming capitalist societies worldwide. In doing so, we denounce the domesticated versions of critical pedagogy that are insufficiently critical of capitalism and even hostile to a socialist alternative."

Comments

This article was originally published in The Capilano Review, volume 3, issue 13, in 2011.

Recommended Citation

McLaren, P. (2011). Revolutionary critical pedagogy for a socialist society: A manifesto. The Capilano Review, 3(13): 61-66.

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

The Capilano Review