Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology

Description

Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology presents a series of dialogues between Peter McLaren, a founding figure of critical pedagogy, and Petar Jandric. The authors begin by exploring the tradition of dialogic writing within critical pedagogy and discuss what it means to engage in dialogue in the age of digital reason. They go on to debate digital technology, its wide social impacts, and relationships to critical pedagogy working towards a new revolutionary consciousness that seeks to use information and communication technology in the service of humanity. In the concluding chapters McLaren and Jandric explore liberation theology and the works of Karl Marx and Paulo Freire, situating contemporary liberation theology in the age of digital reason. Throughout the dialogues we see how McLaren's thinking on critical pedagogy and liberation theology have developed since the publication of Pedagogy of Insurrection. The book includes a preface by Antonia Darder, a foreword by Peter Hudis and an afterword by Michael Adrian Peters. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introductions Chapter 1: Peter McLaren: Portrait of a Revolutionary 1948–1973: Early Childhood and Wild Years 1974–1984: From Rookie Teacher to Acclaimed Writer and Prospective Academic 1985–1993: From Perspective Academic to One of the Leading Architects of Critical Pedagogy 1994–2001: From Cultural Studies and Postmodernism to Marxist Humanism 2001–2013: From Marxist Humanism to Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy 2013–: Peter McLaren’s Liberation Theology Epilogue Chapter 2: Petar Jandrić: Portrait of a Hunter Gatherer Early Years: Science, Philosophy, Music, and Art The 1990s: Emerging from a Dark Place to Build a Future 2000–2009: From Zagreb to Edinburgh and New Critical Theories 2010–: Creating Dialogues Epilogue Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Digital Technology Chapter 3: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Is Made by Walking: In a World Where Many Worlds Coexist Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in and for the Twenty-First Century The Neighborhood Has Just Become More Interesting Digital Cultures and Ecopedagogy of Sustainability Critical Technological Consciousness for a New Humanity Chapter 4: The Critical Challenge of Networked Learning: Using Information Technologies in the Service of Humanity Critical Learning in Digital Networks We Need to Stop Being Academics and Start Becoming Activists Who Wants to Be Downloaded? Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Liberation Theology Chapter 5: From Liberation to Salvation: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Liberation Theology Jesus Was a Communist The First Religious War of the Twenty-First Century Toward a Global Ethics of Solidarity Between the Material and the Spiritual Chapter 6: Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against and beyond Contemporary Capitalism Early Thoughts about Karl Marx The Socialist Kingdom of God The God of the Rich and the God of the Poor The Morality of Dialectical Materialism Chapter 7: Paulo Freire and Liberation Theology: The Christian Consciousness of Critical Pedagogy The Life and Work of Paulo Freire Paulo Freire and Liberation Theology The Prophetic Church of Paulo Freire Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond Transnational Capitalism Chapter 8: We Must Save Ourselves: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond Global Neoliberal Fascism Transnational Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Fascism The Curious Case of Donald Trump The Christian Republic of American States We Must Save Ourselves Chapter 9: We Want What Others Want: Ayn Rand, René Girard and Acquisitive Mimesis Ayn Rand: The Saint of Human Greed From Praise for a Serial Killer to Socialism for the Rich René Girard’s Acquisitive Mimesis Beyond the Crisis of Hopelessness Chapter 10: Siddhartha Meeting Jesus in the Desert of the Real: Christian Ecopedagogy in and for the Anthropocene Ecosocialism and the Catholic Mystics Steering the Rainbow Warrior Give to the Emperor the Things That Are the Emperor’s, and to God the Things That Are God’s Christian Ecopedagogy in and for the Anthropocene Cosmology, Consciousness and Their Politics Postdigital Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in and for the Anthropocene Chapter 11: Postdigital Science and Education Chapter 12: Reclaiming the Present or a Return to the Ash Heap of the Future? Afterword References Index