Michael Peters (education academic) explained

Michael Peters
Birth Name:	Michael Adrian Peters
Birth Date:	1948
Alma Mater:	Auckland University
Thesis Title:	The problem of rationality : an historicist approach for philosophy of education
Thesis Url:	http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma21166171400002091
Thesis Year:	1984
Doctoral Students:	Nesta Devine^[1]
Awards:	Honorary Doctorate (Aalborg University, Denmark),^[2] Honorary Doctor of Letters (State University of New York,^[3] American Educational Studies Association Critics Book Award 2010, 2009, 2004,^[4] Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Research into Higher Education,^[5] Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand^[6]
Spouse:	Tina Besley

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]

Education

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

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

Bibliography

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.

External links

• google scholar
• institutional homepage
• TEDxRuakura Talk: The Evolution of Truth

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nesta Devine – AUT. www.aut.ac.nz.
2. Web site: Honorary doctors and fellows. www.en.aau.dk.
3. Web site: Diana G. Oblinger and Michael A. Peters to receive Honorary Degrees from SUNY Empire State College. 7 February 2012. development.esc.edu.
4. Web site: 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.
5. Web site: Archived copy . 19 February 2018 . 20 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180220033148/http://www.srhe.ac.uk/members/newsletter/downloads/News_Bulletin_August10.pdf . dead .
6. Web site: Royal Society Te Apārangi – View our current Fellows. royalsociety.org.nz.
7. Web site: Michael Peters – Staff Profiles: University of Waikato. www.waikato.ac.nz.
8. Web site: Faculty Profiles. education.illinois.edu.
9. Peters . Michael . 1984 . Doctoral thesis . The problem of rationality: an historicist approach for philosophy of education . ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland . 2292/1893.
10. Web site: P–R . . 17 June 2022.
11. Web site: Search author: Peters, Michael - worldcat.org . www.worldcat.org . 1 September 2022.