Michael Peters (education academic)

Michael Adrian Peters (born 1948) is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University (previously Professor at Waikato University[7]) and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[8]

Michael Peters
Born
Michael Adrian Peters

1948
Nationality New Zealand
Alma materAuckland University
SpouseTina Besley
AwardsHonorary Doctorate (Aalborg University, Denmark),[1] Honorary Doctor of Letters (State University of New York,[2] American Educational Studies Association Critics Book Award 2010, 2009, 2004,[3] Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Research into Higher Education,[4] Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[5]
Scientific career
ThesisThe problem of rationality : an historicist approach for philosophy of education (1984)
Doctoral studentsNesta Devine[6]

Education

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Peters received BA(Hons) in Geography from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1970; MA in Philosophy from the University of Auckland in 1980; and PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Auckland in 1984. The title of his doctoral thesis was The problem of rationality: an historicist approach for philosophy of education.[9]

Career

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Peters became a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.[10]

Bibliography

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Peters is the author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of approximately seventy books and monographs, including:[11]

  • Michael Peters (Editor), Tina Besley (Editor), Huajun Zhang (Editor). Moral education and the ethics of self-cultivation : Chinese and Western perspectives. Singapore, 2021.
  • Peters, M.A. & Jandrić, P. (2018). The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Stickney, J. (Eds.). (2018). Wittgenstein's Education: 'A Picture Held us Captive'. Singapore.
  • Peters, M.A. & Ronald Barnett (Eds.). (2018). The idea of the university : a reader. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Stickney, J. (Eds.). (2017). A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education. Singapore.
  • Deimann, M. & Peters, M.A. (Eds.) (2016). The Philosophy of Open Learning. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Besley, T. (Eds.) (2015). Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy. New York.
  • Reid, A., Hart, P., & Peters, M.A. (Eds.) (2013). Companion to Research in Education. Dordrecht.
  • Peters, M.A. (Ed.). Educational Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters. London.
  • Peters, M.A. and Bulut, E. (Eds.) (2011). Cognitive Capitalism, Education and the Question of Digital Labor. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. (2011). Neoliberalism and After? Education, Social Policy and the Crisis of Capitalism. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Britez, R. (Eds.) (2008). Open Education and Education for Openness. Rotterdam & Taipei.
  • Besley, T. & Peters, M.A. (2008). Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of the Self. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Besley, T. (Eds.) (2008). Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research. New York.
  • Peters, M.A. & Besley, T. (2006). Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism. Lanham, Boulder, NY, Oxford.
  • Peters, M.A. & Burbules, N. (2004). Poststructuralism and Educational Research. Lanham, Boulder, NY, Oxford.
  • Peters, M.A. (Ed.) (2002). Heidegger, Education and Modernity. Lanham, Boulder, NY, Oxford.
  • Peters, M.A. (Ed.) (1999). After the Disciplines? The Emergence of Cultural Studies. Westport, CT. & London.
  • Peters, M.A. (1996). Poststructuralism, Politics and Education. Westport, CT. & London.
  • Giroux, H., Lankshear, C., McLaren, P. & Peters, M.A. (Eds.) (1996). Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces. London.

References

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  1. ^ "Honorary doctors and fellows". www.en.aau.dk.
  2. ^ "Diana G. Oblinger and Michael A. Peters to receive Honorary Degrees from SUNY Empire State College". development.esc.edu. 7 February 2012.
  3. ^ "The American Educational Studies Association, an international learned society for students, teachers, research scholars, and administrators who are interested in the foundations of education". www.educationalstudies.org.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – View our current Fellows". royalsociety.org.nz.
  6. ^ "Nesta Devine – AUT". www.aut.ac.nz.
  7. ^ "Michael Peters – Staff Profiles: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
  8. ^ "Faculty Profiles". education.illinois.edu.
  9. ^ Peters, Michael (1984). The problem of rationality: an historicist approach for philosophy of education (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1893.
  10. ^ "P–R". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Search author: Peters, Michael - worldcat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
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