[DEBATE] : McLaren et al seminar today (just added), 3:30pm

[Patrick Bond]

(Apologies about the late notice but this opportunity for an intimate 
seminar with Peter, Nathalia and Noah has just arisen. Please alert me 
(pbond at mail.ngo.za or 083 425 1401) if you'd like to join us. This 
seminar will preview tomorrow's Wolpe Lecture and allow the 'travelling 
critique' team an intro to work underway in Durban.)


> WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY, 3:30-5pm, SDS SEMINAR ROOM:
>
> PETER McLAREN, NATHALIA JARAMILLO and NOAH DE LISSOVOY -
> Seminar on the Method of Critical Pedagogy
>
>
> (PLEASE RSVP TO PATRICK BOND at pbond at mail.ngo.za SO WE HAVE A SENSE 
> OF ATTENDANCE.)
>
> Peter McLaren is one of the most influential representatives of 
> critical pedagogy, both nationally and internationally. A major 
> exponent of the work of the late Paulo Freire, McLaren is considered 
> one the nation's leading critical educational theorists. His work 
> covers a wide range of topics, from film criticism, to hip-hop, to the 
> pedagogy of Che Guevara. McLaren is the inaugural recipient of the 
> Paulo Freire Social Justice Award presented by Chapman University, 
> California, April 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the 
> University of Lapland, Finland in 2004. McLaren is the author, 
> co-author, editor, and co-editor of approximately forty books and 
> monographs. Several hundred of his articles, chapters, interviews, 
> reviews, commentaries, and columns have appeared in dozens of 
> scholarly journals and professional magazines worldwide. His most 
> recent books include Capitalists and Conquerors (Rowman and 
> Littlefield, 2005), Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New 
> Imperialism (with Ramin Farahmandpur, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 
> Red Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory, Cultural 
> Politics, and Pedagogy (Hampton Press, 2005), Marxism Against 
> Postmodernism in Educational Theory (with Dave Hill, Mike Cole, and 
> Glenn Rikowski), Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of 
> Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Revolutionary 
> Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium, 
> (Westview Press, 1997); Counternarratives, (with Henry Giroux, Colin 
> Lankshear and Mike Peters, Routledge, 1997), and Critical Pedagogy and 
> Predatory Culture, (Routledge, 1995). He is also author of Life in 
> Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of 
> Education (Allyn & Bacon) which is now in its fourth edition (2002) 
> and preparing to go into a fifth edition.
>
> Nathalia E. Jaramillo received her Masters degree in International 
> Education Policy from Harvard University in 2000 and has since held 
> several posts in national and local educational agencies as a policy 
> analyst, teacher and community activist. Nathalia is currently a 
> doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education, University of 
> California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also co-editor of InterActions: 
> UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. During her tenure 
> at UCLA, Nathalia has authored and co-authored a number of articles, 
> book chapters and encyclopedia entries dealing with issues of feminist 
> inquiry, gender, education policy, and global politics. She is 
> co-author with Peter McLaren of the forthcoming book, Pedagogy and 
> Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism (Rotterdam, The 
> Netherlands, Sense Publishers) Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of 
> Empire: Towards a New Humanism
>
> Noah De Lissovoy is Assistant Professor of social foundations of 
> education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy 
> Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his 
> Ph.D. in 2005 from the Graduate School of Education and Information 
> Studies at UCLA. Prior to graduate study, he taught for seven years in 
> the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he was a union 
> representative and activist. He has also been a member of a number of 
> grassroots organizations struggling for educational justice in policy, 
> curriculum and funding, including in particular the California 
> Consortium for Critical Educators. His research interests include the 
> investigation of processes of oppression and resistance in public 
> schooling and society, as well as the development of contemporary 
> theories of liberatory pedagogy. His articles have appeared in The 
> Journal of Education Policy, The Journal of Postcolonial Education, 
> Equity & Excellence in Education Educação Unisinos, and other 
> journals, as well as in several edited collections on pedagogy and 
> politics.

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