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- Book Title
- Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educa
- Publication Date
- 2019-02-21
- Pages
- 120
- ISBN
- 9781975501693
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Myers Education Press
ISBN-10
1975501691
ISBN-13
9781975501693
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038537040
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Publication Name
Breaking Free : the Life and Times of Peter Mclaren, Radical Educator
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Cultural Heritage, Higher, Educators, Essays, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
This Cartoon Book--Banda Dessinada--is Remarkable, Powerful, Incisive, Accessible, Dramatic, Marxist, Revolutionary, Generous-like the man himself--Peter McLaren. Brought to Life! A Revolutionary Document! Wow! Zap! Kapow! Peter McLaren--remarkable global revolutionary activist educator--brought to full-colour life. Brilliant combination of McLaren's Life, Influences, Education Politics, Fire and Poetics with the Cartoon/Comic form. But this ain't no Cartoon Character! A Revolutionary Document!, Globally esteemed and erudite critical pedagogy icon McLaren, once again breaks new ground, collaborating with illustrator Miles Wilson, creating an autobiography that is one and the same time a Manifesto fora socialist alternative to capitalism. The images, darkly humorous, present a serious challenge for a new generation of youth., A comic book! A comic book! But there's nothing really comic about this graphic autobiography by one of our era's most creative philosophers of education. After branching out from Paulo Freire to liberationtheology, Peter McLaren's poetic genius and astounding imagination have outdonethemselves here with "Pow!", "Crash!", and "Bang!" that will leave readers inspired, breathless and smiling with delight., A wonderfully colorful, creative, radical, and lively way to bring together the lived history of an individual with the larger historical struggle for a more just world--indeed a revolutionary message for our times., McLaren's led a politically and intellectually rich-- and entertaining -- life, which is renewed through this compelling graphic novel. Each page is filled with important and relevant lessons we would do well to heed as we struggle for peace and justice., Albert Einstein once said that a life lived in the service of others is a life worth living. Now comes the story of Peter McLaren. The life and times of this renowned radical educator, as recounted in these engaging pages, holds up a mirror in whose reflection we see the great aspirations of our age. At once a piece of art, social criticism, and critical pedagogy, here is a portrait of the contemporary struggles of the oppressed, told to the backdrop of McLaren's biography. Nothing less than a modern epic!, "Academic freedom of expression is an important ideal, and the author, this reviewer and readers may have to agree to disagree on some of McLaren's political thoughts. All in all, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator offers an artistic retelling of the life and key works of McLaren and questions the reduction of education to mere classroom practices. Peter McLaren has certainly lived an interesting life, and in line with the ethos of critical pedagogy, his work deserves a critical reading that avoids automaton conformity. This comic book presents as good an introduction as any to McLaren's massive oeuvre." (Click HERE for the full review in JALT, Vol. 4 Special Issue No. 1 [2021] ), "A valuable sort of "McLaren for Beginners" in which Peter offers his own Pedagogy of Hope in the stylistic tradition of Zap Comix! The resulting graphic memoir is a radically socialist and countercultural portrait of a life imaged both as and on behalf of theattempted humanization of the world. Critical pedagogy by any means necessary...", How was the radical educator educated? Find out here, as Peter McLaren leads us through the liberatory labyrinth of his life - from Toronto to San Francisco, Chiapas to Caracas, Azania to Anatolia, UCLA to the PRC. Meet his superhero comrades from Hugo Chavez to Che Guevara's daughter. Sail with him as he tacks between the turbulent tides of his allies Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Meet the teacher's teachers - Umberto Eco and Michel Foucault, Paolo Freire and Joel Kovel. The script is Professor Xavier meets The Invisibles. The illustrations are The Yellow Submarine meets Fantastic Planet, and/or Dragonball Z meets Transmetropolitan. Look out Avengers and Justice League! Breaking free of the artificial scarcity on superpowers, UCLA's most dangerous professor is here, armed with critical pedagogy and Marxist spirituality, to fight against bad schools and bad government, and to help us all join the revolution against the capitalist world-system and its national security states., Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator is a unique and important new publication. It is a beautiful compliment to his theoretical,philosophical, empirical and activist writing and engagement on the ground. It helps to fill in the story. It shows us how his life, thinking and work have been influenced, over the years, by other important colleagues, comrades and activists. In the spirit of Ruis' ABChé, this is a must-read for undergrads, graduate students, scholars and all who seek to make this world a better place., Albert Einstein once said that a life lived in theservice of others is a life worth living. Now comes the story of Peter McLaren. The life and times of this renowned radical educator, as recounted inthese engaging pages, holds up a mirror in whose reflection we see the greataspirations of our age. At once a pieceof art, social criticism, and critical pedagogy, here is a portrait of thecontemporary struggles of the oppressed, told to the backdrop of McLaren's biography. Nothing less than a modern epic!, The indomitable Peter McLaren is the living embodiment of critical pedagogy, a truly radical educator who has always been interested in stretching the limits of genre to explore, innovate and communicate. In the comic Breaking Free we see his ability to reinvent himself and communicate himself and his ideas afresh. That's why we all love him., Howwas the radical educator educated? Find out here, as Peter McLaren leads usthrough the liberatory labyrinth of his life - from Toronto to San Francisco,Chiapas to Caracas, Azania to Anatolia, UCLA to the PRC. Meet his superherocomrades from Hugo Chavez to Che Guevara's daughter. Sail with him as he tacksbetween the turbulent tides of his allies Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg.Meet the teacher's teachers - Umberto Eco and Michel Foucault, Paolo Freire andJoel Kovel. The script is Professor Xavier meets The Invisibles. Theillustrations are The Yellow Submarine meets Fantastic Planet, and/orDragonball Z meets Transmetropolitan. Look out Avengers and Justice League!Breaking free of the artificial scarcity on superpowers, UCLA's most dangerousprofessor is here, armed with critical pedagogy and Marxist spirituality, tofight against bad schools and bad government, and to help us all join therevolution against the capitalist world-system and its national securitystates., Peter McLaren is one of the leading architects of contemporary critical theory, a radical activist, a storyteller, a revolutionary Marxist humanist, a scholar of liberation theology, the poet laureate of the educational left, and much more. In the face of his tremendous achievements, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator avoids the trap of representing Peter as a classical comic hero. Instead, its authors weave a warm story about a working-class boy who has risen to become his own type of hero: an intellectual hero, a hero of humility and respect for everyone, who inspires and gently pushes people to do the best of their ability for the benefit of humankind. Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator is a superb biographical sketch aimed at those who know little about Peter's work, an eye opener for those who read Peter's works but never met him in person, and an important contextualisation for those who seek deeper understanding of relationships between Peter's works and the person behind them. With this extraordinarily important book, Peter McLaren once again crosses the well-entrenched border between 'serious' scholarship and popular culture and insists that the path to emancipation and freedom belongs to everyone., " Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator accomplishes both goals identified in the foreword: it offers an artistic telling of the life of radical educator Peter McLaren while provoking 'readers to rethink education not as a set of classroom practices but rather come to see teaching as the journey of a lifetime, as a way of being and becoming, as a political project for building a socialist alternative for ourselves, our students, and our future.' "(Read the full review HERE.), ZAP! POW! KABOOM! Here is a life story destined to be made into a comic book--the only medium wide and weird enough to capture the complex, dynamic, multidimensional, generative, shifting, and creative force that is Peter McLaren. Read this book and be inspired to dive into the contradictions, to launch your own voyage of discovery and surprise, to have your blooming in the noise and chaos of the whirlwind., Globally esteemed and erudite critical pedagogy icon McLaren, once again breaks new ground, collaborating with illustrator Miles Wilson, creating an autobiography that is one and the same time a Manifesto for a socialist alternative to capitalism. The images, darkly humorous, present a serious challenge for a new generation of youth., "A comic book! A comic book! But there's nothing really comic about this graphic autobiography by one of our era's most creative philosophers of education. After branching out from Paulo Freire to liberationtheology, Peter McLaren's poetic genius and astounding imagination have outdonethemselves here with "Pow!", "Crash!", and "Bang!" that will leave readers inspired, breathless and smiling with delight.", Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator is a unique and important new publication. It is a beautiful compliment to his theoretical, philosophical, empirical and activist writing and engagement on the ground. It helps to fill in the story. It shows us how his life, thinking and work have been influenced, over the years, by other important colleagues, comrades and activists. In the spirit of Ruis' ABChé, this is a must-read for undergrads, graduate students, scholars and all who seek to make this world a better place., McLaren's led a politically and intellectuallyrich--and entertaining--life, which is renewed through this compelling graphicnovel. Each page is filled with important and relevant lessons we would do wellto heed as we struggle for peace and justice., Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator accomplishes both goals identified in the foreword: it offers an artistic telling of the life of radical educator Peter McLaren while provoking 'readers to rethink education not as a set of classroom practices but rather come to see teaching as the journey of a lifetime, as a way of being and becoming, as a political project for building a socialist alternative for ourselves, our students, and our future.' (Read the full review HERE.), Peter McLaren is one of the leading architects of contemporary critical theory, a radical activist, a storyteller, a revolutionaryMarxist humanist, a scholar of liberation theology, the poet laureate of the educational left, and much more. In the face of his tremendous achievements, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator avoids the trap of representing Peter as aclassical comic hero. Instead, its authors weave a warm story about a working-class boy who has risen to become his own type of hero: an intellectual hero, a hero of humility and respect for everyone, who inspires and gently pushes people to do the best of their ability for the benefit of humankind. Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren, Radical Educator is a superb biographical sketch aimed at those who know little about Peter's work, an eye opener for those who read Peter's works but never met him in person, and an important contextualisation for those who seek deeper understanding of relationships between Peter's works and the person behind them. With this extraordinarily important book, Peter McLaren once againcrosses the well-entrenched border between 'serious' scholarship and popularculture and insists that the path to emancipation and freedom belongs toeveryone., "A valuable sort of "McLaren for Beginners" in which Peter offers his own Pedagogy of Hope in the stylistic tradition of Zap Comix! The resulting graphic memoir is a radically socialist and countercultural portrait of a life imaged both as and on behalf of the attempted humanization of the world. Critical pedagogy by any means necessary...", "A comic book! A comic book! But there's nothing really comic about this graphic autobiography by one of our era's most creative philosophers of education. After branching out from Paulo Freire to liberation theology, Peter McLaren's poetic genius and astounding imagination have outdone themselves here with "Pow!", "Crash!", and "Bang!" that will leave readers inspired, breathless and smiling with delight."
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Early Life Part Two: Hippie Years Part Three: College Days Part Four: Teaching Days Part Five: Working with the Corridor Kids Part Six: Graduate Study Part Seven: Professor Days Part Eight: Days of Rage Epilogue
Synopsis
Chronicles Peter MacLaren's cross-country climb up the educational ladder as a teacher steeped in the school system, his encounters with various key players in history - from the Black Panthers to Timothy Leary - and everything else in between., From Myers Education Press--the publisher who brought you such titles as A School with a View , Childhoods , and Student Activism in the Academy --comes a story or rather...a series of stories that are as out of this world as its protagonist. Long before he became a renowned Critical Studies professor at Chapman University, Peter McLaren was just another Toronto native trying to survive in a conservative working-class family. His father fought in WWII while his mother put food on the table, but--like his father--Peter was caught in his own battles dodging abusive teachers and navigating through an academic roller-coaster. Sure, his home life may be ripped from a '50s sitcom on the surface; but his background and the rest of his life from that point on was far from one...or maybe it was. This book chronicles Peter's cross-country climb up the educational ladder as a teacher steeped in the school system, his encounters with various key players in history--from the Black Panthers to Timothy Leary, and everything else in between. Perfect for courses such as: History of Education, Race and Ethnic Studies, Sociology of Education, Social Justice and Education, Democracy and Civics, Community Engagement, Policy Studies, and Critical Race Theory., From Myers Education Press--the publisher who brought you such titles as A School with a View , Childhoods , and Student Activism in the Academy --comes a story or rather...a series of stories that are as out of this world as its protagonist. Long before he became a renowned Critical Studies professor at Chapman University, Peter McLaren was just another Toronto native trying to survive in a conservative working-class family. His father fought in WWII while his mother put food on the table, but--like his father--Peter was caught in his own battles dodging abusive teachers and navigating through an academic roller-coaster. Sure, his home life may be ripped from a '50s sitcom on the surface; but his background and the rest of his life from that point on was far from one...or maybe it was. This book chronicles Peter's cross-country climb up the educational ladder as a teacher steeped in the school system, his encounters with various key players in history--from the Black Panthers to Timothy Leary, and everything else in between. Perfect for coursessuch as: History of Education, Race and Ethnic Studies, Sociology of Education,Social Justice and Education, Democracy and Civics, Community Engagement,Policy Studies, and Critical Race Theory.
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