Michael Peters

Activities & Honors

• Distinguished Senior Scholar, College of Education, 2008-2009
• consulting editor, Canadian Journal of Education, 2006- present
• Editorial Board Member, Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau, 2006- present
• member of international advisory board, Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, 2006- present
• Editorial Board Member, Fast Capitalism, 2006- present
• Publications series editor, Key Critical Thinkers in Educational Thought, 2006- present
• Publications series editor, Research and Knowledge Futures, 2006- present
• Publication series editor, Studies in Education, Philosophy and Culture Series, 2006- present
• Editorial Board Member, Globalization and Health, 2005- present
• Editorial Board Member, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2005- present
• Publication series editor, Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues Book Series, 2005- present
• Publication series editor, Interventions: Education, Philosophy and Culture, 2005- present
• Publications series editor, Educational Politics and Policy, 2005- present
• Publications series editor, Educational Futures - Rethinking Theory and Practice, 2005- present
• Publications series editor, Contexts of Education - A Series of Handbooks, 2005- present
• Fellow and member of advisory committee, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), 2004- present
• Co-Editor, Symposium Publications, E-Learning, 2004- present
• Editorial Board Member, Ideas and Dialogue, 2004- present
• Consulting editor, Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny, 2004- present
• Editorial Board Member, Fast Capitalism, 2004- present
• Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Pragmatism, 2004- present
• Publications series editor, New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, 2004- present
• Editor, Policy Futures in Education, 2003- present
• consulting editor, Access, 2001- present
• Editorial Board Member, Geschaftsstelle des Jahrbuch für Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie, 2001- present
• Editorial Board Member, Série Fontes, 2001- present
• Macmillan Brown Lecture series, University of Canterbury, 2001-
• Editor, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1998- present
• Member of Executive, PESA, 1998- present

Research Statement

My main research interests are in education and philosophy, social theory and policy studies with a focus on the significance of both contemporary philosophers (Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger) and the movements of poststructralism, critical theory and analytic philosophy to the framing of educational theory and practice.  I am also interested in philosophical and political economy approaches to questions of knowledge production, consumption and constructions of the 'knowledge economy', with an emphasis on social media, p2p, and openness in education and science. My major current projects include work on distributed knowledge systems, creative and open knowledge, learning and publishing systems, and 'open education'.

Publications

• Peters, M. A. (2010). Three forms of knowledge economy: Learning, creativity, openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58 (1), 67-88.
• Marginson, S., Murphy, P. & Peters, M.A. Global Creation: Space, Connection and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy. New York, Peter Lang.
• Simons, M., Olssen, M., & Peters, M. A. (Eds.) Re-Reading education policies: Studying the policy agenda of the 21st century. Rotterdam & Taipei, Sense Publishers.
• Peters, M. A. (2009). The ghostly promise of enlightenment Europe: Habermas, Derrida and the predicament of the west. Review of Contemporary Philosophy, 8.
• Peters, M. A., & Kessl, F. (2009). Space, time, history: The reassertion of space in social theory. Policy Futures in Education, 7(1), 20-30.
• Peters, M. A. (2009). Education, creativity and the economy of passions: New forms of educational capitalism. Thesis Eleven, 96, 40-63.
• Peters, M.A. (2009) Renewing the American Dream: Obama’s political philosophy, Policy Futures in Education, 7 (1): 125‑128.
• Peters, M. A., Besley, T., Olssen, M., Maurer, S. Weber, S. (Eds.). (2009). Governmentality studies in education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Peters, M., Murphy, P., & Marginson, S. (2009). Creativity and the global knowledge economy. New York: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M.A. & Biesta, H. Derrida, Politics and Pedagogy: Deconstructing the Humanities. New York, Peter Lang
• Peters, M. A. (Ed.). (2009). Academic writing, genres and philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
• Peters, M. A., Burbules, N., & Smeyers, P. (2008). Saying, showing and doing: Wittgenstein as pedagogical philosopher. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.
• Peters, M.A., Maurer, S., Weber, S., Olssen, M. & Besley, A.C. (Eds.) (2008) Governmentality and Beyond: Education and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Rotterdam, Sense Publishers.
• Kvernbekk, T., Simpson & Peters, M.A. (Eds.) Military Pedagogies and Why They Matter. Rotterdam & Taipei, Sense Publishers
• Peters, M.A., Blee, H. & Britton, A. (Eds.) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers.
• Peters, M. A., & Besley, T. (Eds.) (2007). Why Foucault? New directions in educational research. New York: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M. A. (2007). Das neuseelandische bildungsexperiment: Von demokratischer partizipation zum selbstmanagement und von der umfassenden wohlfahrtsberechtigung zur privaten investitionsinitiative. In H. Sunker & I. Miethe (Eds.), Arbiet, bildung & gesellschaft (pp. 125-152). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M.A. (2007) 'Wittgenstein, Education and the Philosophy of Mathematics' in LINGUISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS Vol. 6, May 2007 (Reprint).
• Peters, M. A., & Besley, A.C. (2008). Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, education and the culture of the self. New York: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M. A. (2006). The rise of global science and the emerging political economy of international research collaborations. European Journal of Education: Research, Development and Policies, the European University: Between Governance, Discipline and Network, 41(2), 225-244.
• Peters, M. A., & Grierson, E. (2006). Introduction: The legacy of Jacques Derrida [Special Issue]. Access: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 24(1-2).
• Peters, M. A. (2006). Lyotard, nihilism and education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 25(4).
• Peters, M. A. (2006). Environmental education and education for sustainable development. Policy Futures in Education, 3(3).
• Smeyers, P., & Peters, M. A. (Eds.). (2006). Postfoundationalist themes in the philosophy of education: Festschrift for James D. Marshall. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Peters, M. A., & Besley, A. C. (2006). Building knowledge cultures: Education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Peters, M.A. (2006) Neoliberalismus, Sozialwissenschaftleche Literatur Rundschau, 'Zeitschrift fur Sozialarbeit, Sozialpadagogik, Sozialpolitik und Gesellschaftspolitik', 29 jahrgang, 2006, heft 53, pp. 54-59 9in German translation) (reprint)
• Peters, M. A., & Freeman-Moir, J. (Eds.). (2006). Edutopias: New utopian thinking in education. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
• Peters, M. A. (2006). Higher education, development and the learning economy. Policy Futures in Education, 4(3), 279-291.
• Peters, M. A. (2006) The promise of politics and pedagogy in Derrida. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 28(2), 123 - 139.
• Peters, M. A., & Burbules, N. (2004). Poststructuralism and educational research. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Peters, M. A., Olsen, M. & Lankshear, C. (Eds.). (2003). Futures of critical theory: Dreams of difference. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Peters, M. A., Lankshear, C., & Olssen, M. (Eds.). (2003). Critical theory and the human condition: Founders and praxis. New York: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M. A., & Ghiraldelli, P. J. (Eds.). (2002). Richard Rorty: Education, philosophy and politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Peters, M. A. (2001). Poststructuralism, Marxism and Neoliberalism: Between theory and politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Links

• Educational Philosophy and Theory
• Policy Futures in Education
• E-Learning