Michael Adrian Peters
Encyclopedia
Michael Peters is a Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory, and a lifelong Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities.
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, NZ (2000–03) and Research Professor at the University of Glasgow
, UK (2000–05), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (both with Symposium) and sits on the editorial board of over fifteen international journals.
Michael A. Peters (Bergin and Garvey, 1996)
Individualism and Community: Education and Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition
Michael A. Peters and James D. Marshall (Falmer Press, 1996).
Counternarratives : Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces
Henry A. Giroux, Peter McLaren, Colin Lankshear, and Michael A. Peters (Routledge, 1996).
University Futures and the Politics of Reform in New Zealand
Michael A. Peters & Peter Roberts (Dunmore Press, 1999)
Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy
Michael A. Peters & J.D. Marshall (Bergin and Garvey, 1999)
Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and Politics
Michael A. Peters (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
Poststructuralism and Educational Research
Series: Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
Michael A. Peters & Nicholas C. Burbules (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
Building Knowledge Cultures: Education in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism
Peters, M.A. with Tina Besley (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education, and the Culture of Self
Michael A. Peters and Tina Besley (Peter Lang, 2007)
Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy
Michael A. Peters, Simon Marginson, and Peter Murphy (Peter Lang, 2008)
Education
Michael Peters holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, and an honors degree in Geography. He has also attained a teaching diploma and taught in New Zealand high schools for seven years. During his teaching years he became the Head of the Department and completed a major for a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and returned full time to complete his Master in Philosophy, with first class honors, and PhD in Philosophy of Education with a thesis on the philosopher, Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...
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Research and Interests
Michael Peters has a strong research interests in distributed knowledge systems, digital scholarship and elearning systems and has acted as an advisor to government on these and related matters in Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU.Professional Appointments
He held a personal chair at the University of AucklandUniversity of Auckland
The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...
, NZ (2000–03) and Research Professor at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
, UK (2000–05), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (both with Symposium) and sits on the editorial board of over fifteen international journals.
Publications
Poststructuralism, Politics and EducationMichael A. Peters (Bergin and Garvey, 1996)
Individualism and Community: Education and Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition
Michael A. Peters and James D. Marshall (Falmer Press, 1996).
Counternarratives : Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces
Henry A. Giroux, Peter McLaren, Colin Lankshear, and Michael A. Peters (Routledge, 1996).
University Futures and the Politics of Reform in New Zealand
Michael A. Peters & Peter Roberts (Dunmore Press, 1999)
Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy
Michael A. Peters & J.D. Marshall (Bergin and Garvey, 1999)
Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and Politics
Michael A. Peters (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
Poststructuralism and Educational Research
Series: Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
Michael A. Peters & Nicholas C. Burbules (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
Building Knowledge Cultures: Education in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism
Peters, M.A. with Tina Besley (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education, and the Culture of Self
Michael A. Peters and Tina Besley (Peter Lang, 2007)
Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy
Michael A. Peters, Simon Marginson, and Peter Murphy (Peter Lang, 2008)