# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-mclaren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:45.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-mclaren"
name: "Peter McLaren"
slug: "peter-mclaren"
description: "Peter McLaren is a Canadian-American scholar and is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy. He is known for his writings on critical literacy, sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory."
tagline: "Canadian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterMclaren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1948-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.022032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "پیٹر میک لارن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر مكلارين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر مكلارين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Макларен, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McLaren"
    title: "Peter McLaren"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2062175"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump