Please be sure to arrange for appropriate Visas and other Travel arrangements early! Visit the Indigenous archeological sites of Paquimé

Internationally known participants include:

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A & M University, is a renowned scholar in the field of race studies, Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity, and author of Racism without Racists, White Supremacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era, and White Out.

Alicia de Alba Ceballos, Professor and Researcher at UNAM (Mexico National Autonomous University) and SNI; author of The Curriculum in the Postmodern Condition; Curriculum: Crises, Myth and Perspectives; Curricular Evaluation: Field Conceptual Conformation; Theory and Education: The Scientific Character of Educational Theories.

Alfredo L. Fernández, Professor, Pedagogy College of Philosophy and Dean of Academic Development in the DGAPA at the Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM), Former assistant to Mexican Minister of Education, coauthor of Paulo Freire on Higher Education. Editorial board member of educational academic journals.

Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is an educator and social activist, author and editor of over thirty books, which include, Life in Schools, Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture Revolutionary Multiculturalism, Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution (with Ramin Farahmandpur) Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism, and Capitalists and Conquerors: Teaching Against Empire.

Luis Porter, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University Xochimilco, academic advisor to several national Mexican Higher Education organizations and institutions, author of many publications, including, Models of Educational Planning for Marginalized Communities and Paper-Based University.

Patricia Ravelo, Professor and Researcher at the Center for Social Anthropology and Higher Education Research (CIESAS) at the Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM), UACJ, and Chicano Studies, at The University of Texas at El Paso. Author of several publications about women’s health and women’s labor issues in the maquiladora industry.

E. Wayne Ross is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). He is the author or editor of numerous books including Image and Education: Teaching in the Face of the New Disciplinarity, Defending Public Schools, The Social Studies Curriculum, and Democratic Social Education. He is also a co-founder of the Rouge Forum and editor of the journals Cultural Logic: Marxist Theory and Practice and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor.

Angela Valenzuela, Associate Professor, Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring, winner of the American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award. Recipient of 2000 TACHE Distinguished Faculty Award from the Texas Association for Chicanos in Higher Education.
 

This conference welcomes proposals that take critical pedagogy in new directions for a new generation. The goal is to build upon past accomplishments of critical pedagogy while moving beyond its historical limitations. This includes efforts that revisit and re-evaluate established topics in the field or take on new areas of contestation. Any issues related to education, labor, and emancipation, broadly defined and from any geographical context, are encouraged. The theoretical perspectives used to look at these issues might include, but are not limited to, the following: Critical race theory; womanism; mujerismo; queer theory; indigenous perspectives and theory; globalization and neoliberal counterhegemonic discourses; liberation theology; critical environmental studies; critical transnational studies; critical poststructural studies; critical postmodern studies; critical postcolonial studies; critical feminist theory; critical constructivism, etc.

Two books will be produced from this conference. The most engaging conference papers, as selected by an editorial board, will comprise the content of these books. Articles for journals will also be selected from conference papers. (The publication(s) may be in Spanish and/or English. If presenting papers in English, please use the APA style. To be considered for Mexican publication, your submission must be in Spanish).

Questions may be directed to conference organizers: