Michael Adrian Peters (born 1948) is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a

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in the Faculty of Education at

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(previously

Waikato University , mottoeng = For The People , established = 1964; years ago , endowment = (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $263.6 million (31 December 2020) , chancellor = Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ , vice_chancellor = Neil Quigley , city ...

) and

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at the

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Education

Peters received BA(Hons) in

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from the

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in 1970; MA in

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from the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

in 1980; and PhD in

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from the

in 1984. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''The problem of rationality: an historicist approach for philosophy of education''.

Career

Peters became a fellow of the

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in 2009.

Bibliography

Peters is the author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of approximately seventy books and monographs, including: * 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.

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