On Dialectics and Human Decency: Education in the Dock

Authors

Peter McLaren, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of capitalism and world-historical events, this article examines the advance of globalized imperialism from the perspective of a Marxist-humanist approach to pedagogy known as ‘revolutionary critical pedagogy’ enriched by liberation theology. It is written as an epistolic manifesto to the transnational capitalist class, demanding that those who willingly serve its interests reconsider their allegiance and calling for a planetary revolution in the way that we both think about capitalism and how education and religion serves to reproduce it at the peril of both students and humanity as a whole.

Comments

This article was originally published in Open Review of Educational Research, volume 2, issue 1, in 2015. DOI: 10.1080/23265507.2014.986187

Recommended Citation

McLaren, P. (2015). On dialectics and human decency: Education in the dock. Open Review of Educational Research, 2(1), 1-25, DOI: 10.1080/23265507.2014.986187

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1

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