Professor Michael A. Peters, Adjunct Professor
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Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia). His PhD was in the philosophy of education, focusing on Ludwig Wittgenstein, at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) where he was appointed to a personal chair in 2000 and held a joint position between Auckland and Glasgow. He writes at the intersection of fields in philosophy, education, policy and politics, with a strong interest in theories of postmodernity, knowledge and economy, and implications for education. He has written over forty books and some three hundred articles and chapters, including most recently Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as pedagogical philosopher (Paradigm, 2007) (with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers); Truth and Subjectivity: Foucault, education and the culture of self (Peter Lang, 2007), Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: educational and development in the age of knowledge capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), with Tina (A.C.) Besley; and Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007).
School of Art Research Cluster
Art, Knowledge and Globalization
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Educational Philosophy & Theory, Editor
Policy Futures in Education, Editor
E-Learning, Editor