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...a critical pedagogy that embraces a resistance post-modernism needs to construct a politics of refusal that can provide both the conditions for interrogating the institutionalization of formal equality based on the prized imperative of a white, Anglo male world and for creating spaces to facilitate an investigation of the way in which dominant institutions must be transformed so that they no longer serve simply as conduits for a motivated indifference to victimization for a Euroimperial aesthetics, for depredations of economic and cultural dependency, and for the production of asymmetrical relations of power and privilege...

And this is just a portion of a sentence. If it wasn't for "white, Anglo male," and "Euroimperial," I would have no idea what he is talking about. Somebody (probably taxpayers) actually pays this guy to write this crap. And he's only one member of the horde which has been working for most of a century to eradicate genuine education from our nation. Separation of school and state is our only hope.

And this is just a portion of a sentence. If it wasn't for "white, Anglo male," and "Euroimperial," I would have no idea what he is talking about.

Neither does he, but that's not important to leftists like McLaren. What this kind linguistic drool is all about is to intimidate the reader: "gee, I don't understand what he's saying but it sure sounds impressive..."

You, too, can write like a liberal educator. Create endless run-on sentences with words like, hegemony, pedagogy, praxis, exegesis, patriarchy, postmodern, and multicultural. If you need to make emphasis, use racist, jingoistic, or, my favorite, ludic, as spicy adjectives. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Here's one of mine: "A pedagogy must be made available to teachers that will infuse their pedagogies with postmodern elan of the ludic intellectual hegemony inherent in the white male patriarchy".