Peter McLaren is codirector of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and international ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice. He is one of the world’s leading scholars of critical pedagogy and is the author of more than forty books, including, most recently, Pedagogy of Insurrection.

09.19.2021

• Peter McLaren

Paulo Freire’s Ideas Are Just as Powerful Today as Ever

Socialist educator Paulo Freire was born one hundred years ago today in the Brazilian city of Recife. A longtime comrade of Freire, leading Marxist pedagogue Peter McLaren writes about how his life and work remain deeply relevant today.