McLaren, Peter, 1948-

Capitalists and conquerors : a critical pedagogy against empire / Peter McLaren - Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. - xii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Capitalists and conquers : an introduction / Peter McLaren -- Critical pedagogy in the age of neoliberal globalization / Peter McLaren -- Revolutionary pedagogy in postrevolutionary times : rethinking the political economy of critical education / Peter McLaren -- Paul Willis, class consciousness, and critical pedagogy : toward a socialist future / Peter McLaren and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale -- After the box people : the labor-capital relation as class constitution and its consequences for Marxist educational theory & human resistance / Paula Allman, Peter McLaren, and Glenn Rikowski -- Revolutionary ecologies : ecosocialism and critical pedagogy / Peter McLaren and Donna Houston -- The legend of the Bush gang : imperialism, war, and propaganda / Peter McLaren and Gregory Martin -- The dialectics of terrorism : a Marxist riposte / Peter McLaren -- God's cowboy warrior : Christianity, globalization, and the false prophets of imperialism / Peter McLaren and Nathalia E. Jaramillo

This book offers a scathing critique of the Bush Jr. administration and its drive for world domination, while also challenging conservative and liberal positions on global capitalism, the war in Iraq, the concept of democracy and political agency, and the role of public schooling. Capitalists and Conquerors offers readers a bold new socialist vision upon which to build an alternative to capitalism

0742541924 (alk. paper) 0742541932 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004026498


Critical pedagogy
Education and globalization
Educational sociology

LC196 / .M28 2005