Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1989
Abstract
"Work within the field of critical pedagogy is currently being undertaken in the United States and Canada during what we consider a precipitous and precarious time. The present historical juncture may be singled out as a moment of particular urgency and importance for the future of democracy as we bear witness to two conflicting potentialities which manifest themselves in the struggle on an increasing worldwide basis between democratic forms of social life and those which can be labelled totalitarian and autocratic. A significant dimension of this crisis involves the politics of meaning and representation. We call attention to the present cultural logic or sensibility currently organizing aspects of everyday life, a logic which has been variously theorized under the term 'postmodern.'"
Recommended Citation
McLaren, P., & Hammer, R. (1989). Critical pedagogy and the postmodern challenge: Towards a critical postmodernist pedagogy of liberation. Educational Foundations, 3(3): 29-62.
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
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Comments
This article was originally published in Educational Foundations, volume 3, issue 3, in 1989.