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//** =“The Travelling Critique”=
 * //The Paulo Freire Institute – South Africa in conjunction with the School of Adult & Higher Education and the School of Education and Development Faculty of Education presents

//With// **Peter McLaren - Nathalia Jaramillo - Noah De Lissovoy**

29 May – 2 June 2006
Peter McLaren, the most well-known scholar and leader of critical pedagogy, is the first international guest of the PFI-SA. Together with two activists and scholars, Nathalia Jaramillo and Noah De Lissovoy, they present “**The Travelling Critique**” which encourages critical debate and discussion about education, politics and culture

About the speakers…


 * Peter McLaren** is one of the most influential representatives of critical pedagogy, both nationally and internationally. A major exponent of the work of the late Paulo Freire, McLaren is considered one the nation's leading critical educational theorists. His work covers a wide range of topics, from film criticism, to hip-hop, to the pedagogy of Che Guevara. McLaren is the inaugural recipient of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Award presented by Chapman University, California, April 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lapland, Finland in 2004. 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 worldwide.

His 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), Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium, (Westview Press, 1997); Counternarratives, (with Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear and Mike Peters, Routledge, 1997), and Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture, (Routledge, 1995). 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 fourth edition (2002) and preparing to go into a fifth edition.

UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. During her tenure at UCLA, Nathalia has authored and co-authored a number of articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries dealing with issues of feminist inquiry, gender, education policy, and global politics. She is co-author with Peter McLaren of the forthcoming book, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Sense Publishers) Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism
 * Nathalia E. Jaramillo** received her Masters degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2000 and has since held several posts in national and local educational agencies as a policy analyst, teacher and community activist. Nathalia is currently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also co-editor of InterActions:


 * Noah De Lissovoy** is Assistant Professor of social foundations of education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Prior to graduate study, he taught for seven years in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he was a union representative and activist. He has also been a member of a number of grassroots organizations struggling for educational justice in policy, curriculum and funding, including in particular the California Consortium for Critical Educators. His research interests include the investigation of processes of oppression and resistance in public schooling and society, as well as the development of contemporary theories of liberatory pedagogy. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Education Policy, The Journal of Postcolonial Education, Equity & Excellence in Education Educação Unisinos, and other journals, as well as in several edited collections on pedagogy and politics.

THE TRAVELLING CRITIQUE
29th May – 2 June 2006

DAY ONE
(Pietermaritzburg Campus) 8.00am –8.30 am Registration and tea 8.30am – 8.45am Introduction and Welcome 9.45am – 10.45am Morning session: Critical Pedagogy (Peter and Nathalia) Overview and key principles Critical pedagogy in the present context 10.45 – 11.15am Tea 11.15am – 12.30pm Open discussion 12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 – 2.30pm Afternoon: Globalization (Peter and Noah) Neoliberalism and corporatization. Crisis, disaster and global emergency 2.30 – 3.45 Open Discussion 3.45 – 4.15pm Tea 4.15 – 4.45pm Reflections

DAY TWO
Edgewood Campus (Pinetown) 8.30 –10.30am Morning session: Gender, race and capitalism (Noah and Nathalia). Gender and capitalism. Race, colonialism, and capitalism 10.30 – 11.00am Tea 11.00 – 12.30am Open Discussion including response 12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 – 2.45pm Afternoon: Schooling (Peter and Noah). The contemporary context 2.45 – 3.45pm Open discussion including response 3.45 – 4.15pm Tea 4.15 – 4.45pm Reflections

DAY THREE
(Pietermaritzburg Campus) 8.30 –10.30am Imperialism (Peter, Nathalia and Noah). Imperialism and capitalism. Empire and power 10.30 – 11.00pm Tea 11.00 – 12.30am Open discussion including response 12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm – 2.45pm Social Movements (Peter and Nathalia). The role of education in social movements. Contemporary philosophy of praxis 2.45 – 3.30pm Open Discussion 7.00pm till late, Che Café: Poetry Music Popular Theatre Tribute to Paulo and Che (Peter McLaren). Entertainment

DAY FOUR
For Educators (Pietermaritzburg Campus) 9.30am – 10.15am Presentation, Peter McLaren 10.15 – 12.30pm Open Discussion

DAY FIVE
For CBO’s and NGO representatives (Pietermaritzburg Campus) 9.30am – 10.15am Presentation, Peter McLaren. “In Defence of Civil Society ‘. 10.15 – 12.30pm Open Discussion

Please contact **Rekha Nathoo** (Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Email: **nathoor@ukzn.ac.za** Tel 033 260 5592, Fax: 033 260 5756) via email to book your place. Once you have booked and paid (Fees: R300), venue details will be forwarded to you. Please also say what specific dietary requirements you have when you book.
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