Athlone Christine Besley (born in New Zealand in 1950) is an education academic.

Education

With degrees from University of Canterbury, Christchurch Teachers' College, and Massey University, Besley has a PhD in Education in 2001 from

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 ...

titled ''Self, identity, adolescence and the professionalisation of school counselling in New Zealand: a Foucauldian-inspired approach''.

Career

Having been a NZ secondary school teacher for 16 years, she began her academic career as research fellow at University of Glasgow, Scotland in late 2000, then she moved to

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. She has been a Full Professor since appointment in 2006 at

California State University San Bernardino California State University, San Bernardino (Cal State San Bernardino or CSUSB) is a public research university in San Bernardino, California. Founded in 1965, it is one of the 23 general campuses of the California State University system. The m ...

. In 2008 she returned to

as research professor before her appointment at the

University of Waikato , 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 , cit ...

in August 2011. She works closely and writes often with Prof. Michael A. Peters, her husband since 1996. Besley was Professor, Founding Director of the Centre for Global Studies in Education from 2012 to 2017, Associate Dean International (Faculty of Education) at University of Waikato. Besley has been President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). As a longstanding member who organized the 2014 Annual PESA conference in Hamilton, She was awarded Fellow of PESA, FPESA. She is founding President of The Association for Visual Pedagogies Inc (AVP) founded in 2015. In September 2018 she took up a position as Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, China.

Publications

* Besley, Tina. ''Counseling Youth: Foucault, Power, and the Ethics of Subjectivity''. ABC-CLIO, 2002. * Peters, Michael A., and Tina Besley. ''Building knowledge cultures: Education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism''. Vol. 2. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. * Besley, Tina, and Peters, Michael A.. ''Subjectivity & truth: Foucault, education, and the culture of self''. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. * Besley, Tina. Foucault, truth telling and technologies of the self in schools. ''The Journal of Educational Enquiry'', vol. 6, no. 1, 2009. * Peters, Michael A., and Tina Besley. ''The creative university''. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2013. * Besley, Tina, and Peters, Michael A. ''Teaching, responsibility, and the corruption of youth''. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston: Brill Sense, 2019.

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