Peter McLaren papers
2009.018.r.f
A Collection in the Paulo Freire Critical Pedagogy Archive.
Finding aid prepared by Rand Boyd
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries
Chapman University
One University Drive
Orange, CA, 92866
(714) 532 - 7711
rboyd@chapman.edu
3/5/2012
Title: Peter McLaren papers
Identifier/Call Number: 2009.018.r.f
Contributing Institution:
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.25 Linear feet
(5 boxes, 1 drawer)
Date (inclusive): 1985-2007
Language of Materials note: The majority of materials in this collection are in English, a few are in Spanish.
Abstract: The academic papers of Professor Peter McLaren (b. 1948) with a concentration on his publications.
Location note: Leatherby Libraries
Scope and Contents note
These papers contain material covering the professional career of Peter McLaren with special emphasis on his publications.
Of particular interest are a number of manuscripts, lectures and publisher galleys with hand-written edits.
Arrangement note
This collection is arranged by material type in series.
SERIES 1, Papers
SERIES 2, Correspondence
SERIES 3, Manuscripts
SERIES 4, Publications
SERIES 5, Ephemera
Preferred Citation note
[identify item], Peter McLaren Papers, Paulo Freire Pedagogy Archive (2009.14.r), Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections
and Archives, Chapman University, CA.
Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use note
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Biographical/Historical note
Peter McLaren (b. August 2, 1948) is a Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of
scholarly articles and chapters. His writings have been translated into 20 languages.
He is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy and for his scholarly writings on critical literacy, the
sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory. He has developed a reputation for his
uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression.
Custodial History note
This collection was orginally a part of
The Freire Project: the Paulo and Nita Freire Project for International Critical Pedagogy(http://www.freireproject.org/) created by Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe. The archival holdings were donated to Chapman
University in 2011 and added to The Paulo Freire Critical Pedagogy Archive.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Shirley Steinberg.
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Papers
1985-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(8 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains material covering the career of McLaren. Highlights are a bound copy of his dissertation, "Education
as Ritual", his curriculum vitae and student evaluations. Of particular interest is material from 2006 dealing with an attack
on McLaren by conservative faculty at UCLA (Papers, professional folder).
Papers, curriculum vitae
2004
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Papers, academic
Bulk, 1997-2006
1987-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains material covering the academic career of McLaren. Of particular interest is material from 2006 dealing
with an attack on McLaren by conservative faculty at UCLA.
Papers, class syllabi
1994-2002
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Papers, student evaluations
1985-1995
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains student evaluations of McLaren-taught classes, 1985-1995
Photograph, personal
late 1980s
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a mounted color photograph of Colin Lankshear, Henry Giroux and Peter McLaren, circa late 1980s.
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Correspondence
1979-2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(6 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains McLaren correspondence, 1985-2007. Some of the highlights are two notes from Paulo Freire and letters
of recommendation from a large number of McLaren's colleagues supporting his nomination for the Renowned Scholar award at
Miami University in 1989.
Correspondence, Personal
1994-2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains some personal correspondence from various individuals to McLaren. Some are from former students but most
are from colleagues, 1994-2007.
Correspondence, Personal, Paulo Freire
1986-1994
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains two notes from Paulo Freire to McLaren: a 1986 note with envelope that has a blurb that Freire wrote
for McLaren's book,
Life in Schools, and a note from Freire from 1994 with accompanying provenance.
Correspondence, Business
1986-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains normal business corresondence from the period 1986 to 2006.
Correspondence, Business, Publishers
Bulk, 1994-1997
1984-2005
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains correspondence between various publishers and McLaren from 1985 until 2005 with the bulk from the period
1994-1997.
Correspondence, Business, Conferences
Bulk, 1984-1997
1979-2005
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of correspondence relating to the appearance of McLaren at various conferences or lectures given by him
with the majority of the material from 1984 to 1997.
Correspondence, EAP Renowned Scholar Award
1989
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains copies of letters sent to Dr. Richard Quantz in support of his nomination of McLaren for Renowned Scholar
at Miami University in 1989. An item of interest is a copy of the original proposal by Quantz to the EAP Committee April 25,
1989.
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Manuscripts
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(11 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a number of manuscripts, lectures and publisher galleys with hand-written edits, most without dates,
along with one folder that contains a collection of random notes. They are not organized.
folder 1:
Fire and Dust;
The Schooled Body: Subjectivity and Subjection;
Review of School Subjects and Curriculum Change (along with publisher's letters)
folder 2:
Transactions in Flesh: Performing in the Culture of the Male Voyeur; (book proposal)
Pedagogies of Dissent: Radical Hope in the Age of Despair;
Language, Schooling, and Subjectivity: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Experience. with Henry A. Giroux; Semioticizing the Self: Social Therapy as Transformation; Unamed Lecture; Juntos en La Lucha. with Nathalia E. Jaramillo;
Paulo Freire: Education as Politics and Politics as Education; Unthinking Gabachismo; Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship
in Postmodern "Predatory" Times, 1996.
folder 3: Untitled Lecture Notes; Caracas Speech; The Ritual Roots of the Pedagogical Encounter; From Ritual to Reasoning.
folder 4: Developing the Foundations for an Emancipatory Curriculum Based on the Invitational Approach, 1985; New Directions
in Invitational Education: Moving with McLaren from Interrogation to Conversation (Response to Founations article by John
M. Novak); Preface for Bilingual Education by Marcia Sampaio de Moraes; Radical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics: Beyond the
Discourse of Critique and Anti-Utopianism. with Henry A. Giroux; The Struggle over Curriculum Reform in the United States:
What's Missing from the Public Debate;
folder 5: Critical Pedagogy in Times of Despair. with Ramin Farahmandpur; Preface by Paulo Freire and edited by McLaren for
Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture; Critical Pedagogy and Class Struggle in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization: Notes
from History's Underside; Untitled Article; Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Global Empire: Dispatches from Headquarters.
folder 6:
Rage and Hope (first part).
folder 7:
Rage and Hope (second part).
folder 8: Critical Mulitculturism and the Globalization of Capital.
folder 9: Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy. with Ramin Farahmandpur; Reflexion
Sobre la Dialectica: Una Perspectiva Semio-Social para Educadores. with Rhonda Hammer; Multiculturalism and Moral Panic: Rasquachismo
and Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Global Capitalism, 1994.
folder 10: The Educational Researcher as Critical Social Agent: Some Personal Reflections on Marxist Criticism in Postmodern
De-educational Climates; Alternative Globalizations: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies. with Nathalia E. Jaramillo;
The Future of the Past: Some Brief Reflections on the Present State of Empire and Pedagogy; The Future of Teacher Education
and the Politics of Resistance. with Marta P. Baltodano; Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a Critical Pedagogy Approach for
Peacemaking with "Terrorists". with Steven Best and Anthony Nocella.
folder 11: Notes, Misc.
Manuscript, corrected publisher's copy of the 5th edition
Life in Schools
2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(3 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains an author-corrected draft for the 5th edition of
Life in Schools.
Manuscript, early draft of
Rage and Hope
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(3 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a draft of
Rage and Hope along with what might be a possible rough draft of the same work and an alternate Chapter 14.
Manuscript, corrected publisher's copy of
Rage and Hope.
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains an author-corrected copy of
Rage and Hope.
Manuscript, corrected publisher's copy of "Chapter 11, Critical Pedagogy and Class Struggle in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization:
Notes from History's Underside"
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains several versions of this chapter with handwritten corrections and comments.
Manuscript, corrected copy of the preface to
A Pedagogy for Life.
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
Contains a publisher's copy with hand-written edits.
Manuscript, corrected copy of "The Pedagogy of Oppression."
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
Contains a photocopy of the corrected article.
Manuscript, speaker introduction
circa 1980s
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
Contains a type-written copy of an introduction for Peter McLaren. No date given but reference is made to McLaren working
on his doctorate so probably from the early 1980s.
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Publications
1976-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(17 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains copies of a number of McLaren's publications including newsletter articles, newspaper clippings, publisher's
galleys of scholarly articles, photocopies and some book jackets. They are not organized.
Publications, scholarly
1986-2006
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(9 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photocopies and print outs of a number of McLaren's scholarly articles including a bound copy of his
doctoral dissertation, "Education as Ritual Performance", 1983. They are not arranged though they do span 1986-2006.
Publications, newsletters
1985-2001
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains some of McLaren's writing from various newsletters, most prominently,
Insights, 1985-1993
Publications, reviews of McLaren books
1977-2003
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Publications about McLaren
1976-2004
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a few clippings and printouts of articles about Peter McLaren. Of interest are a few interviews given
by McLaren over the years.
Publications, dust jackets
1997-1998
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains two publisher-supplied dust jackets.
Publications, clippings
1979-2000
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains three clippings of McLaren's newspaper writings.
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Ephemera
1986-2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(9 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a number of folders holding flyers, posters and certificates of participations and other ephemera related
to the numerous conferences and lectures in which McLaren particpated in.
Ephemera, conferences and lectures
1996-2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(8 folders)
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains flyers, posters and hand bills from conferences and lectures that McLaren was a participant in.
Ephemera, conference participant certificate
1986-2007
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(1 folder)
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains a number of conference participant certificates, 1986-2007.
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Ephemera, conference posters
circa 1990s
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 boxes)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains a number of conference posters. Most are not dated but seem to be from the 1990s.
Ephemera, name plaques
mid 20th century
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(2 objects)
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains two name plaques: an office door plaque, a drift wood desk plaque. No dates are known for either object.