Fire and Dust

Authors

Peter McLaren, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

Drawing upon a Hegelian-Marxist critique of political economy that underscores the fundamental importance of developing a philosophy of praxis, the author theorizes a revolutionary Freireian critical pedagogy which seeks forms of organization that best enable the pursuit of doing critical philosophy as a way of life. The authors argues that the revolutionary critical pedagogy operates from an understanding that the basis of education is political and that spaces need to be created where students can imagine a different world outside of capitalism’s law of value (i.e., social form of labor), where alternatives to capitalism and capitalist institutions can be discussed and debated, and where dialogue can occur about why so many revolutions in past history turned into their opposite.

Comments

This article was originally published in International Journal of Progressive Education, volume 1, issue 3, in 2005.

Recommended Citation

McLaren, P. (2005). Fire and dust. International Journal of Progressive Education, 1(3): 34-57.

Peer Reviewed

1

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