Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Selected Publications
• Selected Links

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1984
• M.A., Philosophy, University of Auckland, 1979
• B.S., Philosophy of Science, Canterbury University, 1976
• B.A., Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, 1970

Key Professional Appointments

• Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--
• Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2000--
• Professor, Educational Studies, University of Glasgow, 2004-2005
• Adjunct Professor, School of Education, University of Auckland, 2003-2005
• Research Professor, Educational Studies, University of Glasgow, 2000-2003
• Professor, School of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2000-2003

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

Selected Publications

• 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.
• Peters, M., Blee, H., & Britton, A. (Eds.). (2008). Global citizenship education: Philosophy, theory and pedagogy. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
• Peters, M. A., & Besley, T. (Eds.) (2007). Why foucault? New directions in educational research. New York: Peter Lang.
• Peters, M. A., & Besley, A.C. (2008). Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, education and the culture of the self. New York: Peter Lang.

Selected Links

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