Peter Mayo

Peter Mayo (born 1955) is Professor in the Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta. He teaches in the areas of Sociology of Education and Adult Continuing Education, as well as in Comparative and International Education and Sociology in general. Among his major contributions is a comparative analysis of Paulo Freire's and Antonio Gramsci's educational thinking.

An invited keynote speaker at international conferences, he has held short-term visiting professorial appointments at the Universities of Alberta and Cyprus and has conducted graduate, public and other seminars at several universities including those of Mainz (block seminars), Hamburg, Frankfurt, Toronto (OISE), Verona, Naples Federico II, the Algarve, Seville and Bogazici (Istanbul). He is the President of the Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education (MESCE) and edits a book series on ‘international perspectives on adult education’ for Sense Publishers.He co-edits another book series (with Anne Hickling Hudson and Antonia Darder), on Postcolonial Studies in Education, for Palgrave-Macmillan.

His internationally acknowledged work includes over 60 papers published in international refereed journals or as chapters in edited books. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Encylopaidea (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell). He recently guest edited a special issue of Comparative Education (Routledge, 2008) and has been invited as a guest editor for a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell, 2009).

Books

*The National Museum of Fine Arts, Midsea Publications, Malta

*Beyond Schooling (co-edited with G. Baldacchino, Mireva, Malta, 1997)

*Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education (Zed Books, London, 1999); also published in Catalan (Crec, Xativa-Valencia), Portuguese (Artmed, Porto Alegre), German (Argument Verlag, Hamburg), Italian (Carlo Delfino Editore, Sassari) and Spanish (Instituto Paulo Freire de España y edicions del CREC; col.laboradores: denes editorial y diálogos.red, Valencia); forthcoming in Turkish (UTOPYA, Ankara)

*Gramsci and Education (co-edited with C. Borg and J.A. Buttigieg, Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, 2002)

*Liberating Praxis (Praeger, Westport CT, 2004, AESA Critics Choice Award 2005; forthcoming in paperback by Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008 and in Catalan translation by Crec, Xativa-Valencia)

*Learning and Social Difference. (co-authored with C. Borg, Paradigm, Boulder Co., 2006)

*Education, Society and Leadership (co-edited with M. Darmanin, Allied Publishers, Malta, 2007),

*Adult Education in Malta (DVV-International, Bonn, 2007)

*Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements. A Book of Interviews (with C. Borg, Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2007).

External links

Peter Mayo's full list of publications http://www.um.edu.mt/pub/pmayo.html