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Professor
Peter McLaren
(UCLA, USA)
Peter McLaren (b. 1948 in Toronto) is internatio-nally
recognized as one of the leading architects of critical
pedagogy worldwide. McLaren is currently Professor of
Education at University of California, Los Angeles.
After earning his doctorate in 1983, he served as Special
Lecturer in Education at Brock University where he
specialized in teaching in urban education.
Professor McLaren is the author, co-author, editor and
co-editor of approximately forty books and monographs.
Several hundred of his articles, chapters, interviews,
reviews, commentaries and columns have appeared in dozens of
scholarly journals and professional magazines since the
publication of his first book, Cries from the Corridor, in
1980.
Professor McLaren’s most recent books include Capitalists
and Conquerors (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), Teaching
Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism (with
Ramin Farahmandpur, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), Red
Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory,
Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (Hampton Press, 2005),
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory (with
Dave Hill, Mike Cole, and Glenn Rikowski, Lexington Books),
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution (Rowman
and Littlefield, 2000), Revolutionary Multiculturalism:
Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millenium, Westview Press,
1997; Counternarratives,(with Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear
and Mike Peters, Routledge, 1997), and Critical Pedagogy and
Predatory Culture, Routledge, 1995. McLaren is the
co-editor of three books on the Brazilian educator, Paulo
Freire (Routledge, 1993, 1994, 2000). He is also author of
Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the
Foundations of Education (Allyn & Bacon) which is now in
its fifth edition (2006).
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Professor Michael Byram
(Durham University, UK)
Michael Byram is Professor of Education
at Durham University, England.
He studied French, German and Danish at
King’s College Cambridge, and wrote a PhD on Danish
literature. He then taught French and German at secondary
school level and in adult education in an English
comprehensive community school. Since being appointed to a
post in teacher education at Durham in 1980, he has carried
out research into the education of linguistic minorities,
foreign language education and student residence abroad.
He has published many books and articles
including Teaching and Assessing Intercultural
Communicative Competence; Language Teachers, Politics
and Cultures (with Karen Risager); Education for
Intercultural Citizenship: Concepts and Comparisons
(edited with G. Alred and M. Fleming); and is the editor of
the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and
Learning.
He is an Adviser to the Council of Europe
Language Policy Division, and is currently interested in
language education policy and the politics of language
teaching
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