The turn of Peter McLaren’s critical pedagogy —return to Marxism

• Main Author: 蔡幸芬
• Other Authors: 蘇永明博士
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/579fvp

博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 100 === Recently the domestic education circle rises to discuss the theme of alien critical pedagogy, especially focusing on America critical pedagogy. In North American, the leaders of critical pedagogy are Apple, Giroux, etc. They care about the issues of cultural politics. But McLaren starts to criticize the path of cultural politics lately, and directs to the analysis of political economy. He addressed a specific opinion of revolutionary critical pedagogy which caused educators attention to his theory. This thesis is to investigate the turn of McLaren’s revolutionary critical pedagogy, and adopts the hermeneutic analysis method. First, it expounded McLaren’s early thought of critical pedagogy. Secondly, it described his query about the postmodernism. Thirdly, it discussed the reflection of ideology, capitalism, globalization, class struggle, and main significations of revolutionary critical pedagogy. Finally, it reviewed his standpoint and extended the notice to Taiwan’s education to provide reference materials for domestic educational theory and praxis. McLaren emphasized to respect the diversity. But he noticed that there is no need to recognize all kinds of differences. The most important thing is to smooth away the social class differences, and then other differences will be recognized. He stressed the importance of the classes, and tried to use Marxism to resist capitalism. Furthermore, capitalism trends to the globalization, and education is affected and gradually becomes so commercialized. Extremely, the schools become stores and the teachers become peddlers of knowledge. The teacher professionalization is challenged. Therefore, he proposed the viewpoint of revolutionary critical pedagogy, and intended to create new thought for education.