The Path of Dissent An Interview With Peter McLaren
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The work of U.S.-Canadian Peter McLaren has assumed a central place in the debates over the role of critical pedagogy in North America; less known among North American educators is that his work has sparked considerable interest in South America for more than a decade and has received special attention in Brazil, the birthplace of Paulo Freire. McLaren is one of North America’s most significant ambassadors of Freire’s work; in recent years, he has also moved into a pedagogical terrain uninhabited by the majority of North American educa-tors—that of Marxist theory and analysis. Of course, this may account for the in-creased interest in his work throughout many Latin American countries, but it is sure to alienate McLaren from many of his long-standing supporters in the United States. It is clear that McLaren is dedicated to developing schools into sites where students can begin to imagine socialist alternatives to capitalism. Although the vast majority of educators in the United States are calling for a redistribution of economic resources within a more “compassionate ” capitalism, McLaren is convinced that only within a socialist society can democracy be achieved.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.037 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.024 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".