The author, Peter McLaren, is one of the foremost North American advocates of critical pedagogy as a strategy to transform educational practices as part of a project of social and cultural transformation. This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it speaks with clarity to students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science. Readers are invited to construct a politics of resistance at the level of everyday institutional life and within other public spheres. Such a politics of resistance is discussed in detail as a form of critical pedagogy which the author develops from the work of Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and from a range of educational theorists and practitioners including Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard.
Critical pedagogy is seen as a means of investing desire in a project of the possible.
Preface by Paulo Freire.