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Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education (first edition, 1989)

The 1989 Longman first edition. A separate work from the sixth edition of 2015, which is source 14.

Peter McLaren

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Cited edition: First edition, New York: Longman, 1st edition, 1989.

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Title
Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education (first edition, 1989)
Subtitle
The 1989 Longman first edition. A separate work from the sixth edition of 2015, which is source 14.
Author
Peter McLaren
Year
1st edition, 1989
Document type
Book
Source class
1. Primary text (the thinker’s own work)
Standpoint
Movement: writes from inside the tradition
Publisher
Longman
Place
New York
Edition
First edition

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ISBN
0-582-28683-2

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The Passages

  1. Passage 01Verified against the document (edition named)

    A new economic ethic is needed that will help guide and eventually reshape economic policy in the interests of everyone, one with the vision and power to counter the dehumanizing effects of modern supply-side capitalism.

    p. 164

    Read against the scanned first edition on the archive shelf, printed page 164, PDF page 180. The running head above it reads 'CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: AN OVERVIEW'. The scan breaks 'economic', 'classism' and 'surplus' across lines and those hyphens are closed up here; nothing else is altered. The sentence before this one, that critical educational theorists mostly work outside the orthodox Marxian tradition and 'do not consider capitalism an irrevocable evil', stands verbatim in the 2015 sixth edition as well, so it cannot tell the editions apart. This sentence is where they part. The sixth edition replaces it with a call for 'a new class struggle' achievable 'only with the overthrow of capitalist society itself'.

  2. Passage 02Verified against the document (edition named)

    the role that schooling plays in joining knowledge and power. Critical pedagogy is designed to serve the purpose of both empowering teachers and teaching for empowerment.

    Preface, p. x

    Read against the scanned first edition on the archive shelf, printed page x, PDF page 12. The scan breaks 'critical' and 'regarding' across lines and those hyphens are closed up here. The 2015 sixth edition keeps this sentence and extends it: 'joining knowledge and power to capitalist social relations of production. Revolutionary critical pedagogy is designed to serve the purpose...'

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  1. documented

    The 1989 first edition of Life in Schools calls for a new economic ethic that will reshape economic policy in the interests of everyone.

    No public page link is recorded.

  2. documented

    The preface of Life in Schools names its tradition critical pedagogy in the 1989 first edition and revolutionary critical pedagogy in the 2015 sixth.

    No public page link is recorded.

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OCR text
Yes
OCR quality
acceptable
Provenance notes
Research copy is a scanned, OCR'd PDF of the Longman first edition, 276 pages, held privately on the archive shelf and never published here. Ingested to the marx corpus on 2026-08-12 as work:w4c70f4ef87feecc5; the 2015 sixth edition is the separate work:w0557cc8011139793. Read against both PDFs on 2026-08-12: the sentence that critical educational theorists mostly work outside the orthodox Marxian tradition and 'do not consider capitalism an irrevocable evil' stands verbatim in BOTH editions, at printed page 164 here and PDF page 156 in the sixth, so it does not identify the edition and must not be cited as if it did. What changed is the sentence after it. This edition calls for 'a new economic ethic ... to reshape economic policy in the interests of everyone'; the sixth replaces that with 'a new class struggle' achievable 'only with the overthrow of capitalist society itself'. Always cite the edition, never the short title alone. OCR is readable but imperfect (occasional joined words and running heads inside the text), so check any quotation against the page before it ships.

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