Michael Adrian Peters

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.

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 Wittgenstein.

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 Auckland, 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.

Publications

Poststructuralism, Politics and Education 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)

References

• Academia.edu Page
• Journal: eLearning
• Journal: Policy Futures in Education

External links

• Michael Peters' website
• Faculty Page

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