Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire

Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire

Professor Peter McLaren and professor Nathalia Jaramillo give two lectures on June 16 at the University of Tampere, Pinni B1096.

11-13 Peter McLaren & Nathalia Jaramillo: Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire
15-17 Peter McLaren: Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research

These lectures are free and open to the public.

Lectures are part of Summer School on Critical Pedagogy and Media Education, arranged by Paulo Freire Research Centre, Finland (Department of Education) and Media Education Project (Department of Journalism and Mass Communication).

Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo co-authored Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism (Sense Publishers, 2007), a collection of essays that investigates corporate global capitalism and its relation to educational and social movements in the United States
and abroad.

Peter McLaren is Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is considered on of the key worldwide architects of critical pedagogy. An advocate for social justice, particularly those in the “Exploited World” (misnamed “Third World”) McLaren is influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy. Among his many writings, Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy against Empire (2005) is probably best known in non-academic circles. Venezuela’s Ministry of Higher Education recently inaugurated the Peter McLaren Chair for the Study of Critical Pedagogy at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela. Another recent
honor bestowed on Prof. McLaren is Toronto-based Chopbox Magazine creation of the Peter L. McLaren Foundation for Social Change.

Dr. Nathalia Jaramillo is Professor of Education in Purdue University College of Education. She has published several journal articles in the area of critical pedagogy and multicultural education.

More information: juha.suoranta@uta.fi, reijo.kupiainen@uta.fi