Books written by Michael A. Peters

Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education

Prophetically, almost thirty years ago Jean-Francois Lyotard forecast the end of the modern research university based on Enlightenment principles. He envisaged the emergence of technical institutes in the service of...
World Class Universities: A Contested Concept

Graduate loses bid to sue Oxford University over failure to get a first. ... oxford-university-sue-fail-first-degree-high-court-faiz-siddiqui-brasenose-college-a8199921. html. ... Suing Alma mater: Higher education and the courts.
Encyclopedia of Teacher Education

There are shrines – small to large–along the way and the top of most mountains in Japan, dedicated to spirits and deities ... It is still practiced today, and with a belief that mountains have “super-powers,” Shugendo monks go through a ...
Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate: A Guidebook for Candidates and Supervisors

This is not a bad thing since translations compel engagement and critical enquiry that simple reading often fails to elicit. ... In Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have the tradition of Māori guides who conveyed to nineteenth century European ...
Derrida, Deconstruction and Education: Ethics of Pedagogy and Research

This book takes as a premise that Derrida is a profound educational thinker, who from the very beginning concerned himself with questions of pedagogy.
Encyclopedia of Teacher Education

The Encyclopedia is an authoritative work by a collective of leading world scholars representing different cultures and traditions, the global policy convergence and counter-practices relating to the teacher education profession.
Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics

This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of his thought.
Education and Technological Unemployment

Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://doi. org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1551835. ... 2018); Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (Palgrave, 2017); and The Wiley Handbook of Global Education Reform ...
Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education...
Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy

The essays in this edited collection argue that global citizenship education realistically must be set against the imperfections of our contemporary political realities.
Neoliberalism, Higher Education and Research

The book rejects the politics of power as inimical to the very becoming of the human and posits the politics of strength as a new possibility that breaks with the plantation system of organized violence and vampiric wealth production.
Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics

This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of Richard Rorty's thought.
Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy

The essays in this edited collection argue that global citizenship education realistically must be set against the imperfections of our contemporary political realities. As a form of education it must...
Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labor

Cognitive capitalism - sometimes referred to as 'third capitalism, ' after mercantilism and industrial capitalism - is an increasingly significant theory, given its focus on the socio-economic changes caused by...
Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education

This edited collection brings together international authors to discuss the meaning and purpose of higher education in a “post-truth” world.
Organization and Newness: Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University

Managing change and transition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. ... Revisiting organizational change: Exploring the paradox of managing continuity and change. ... Von der Organisationsentwicklung zum Change Management.
The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Chinese Educational Philosophy Reader, Volume VII

This edited collection is based on a series of articles written by Michael A Peters as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory to explore the concept of The Chinese Dream first introduced by President Xi in 2012.
Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics

This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of his thought.
The Creative University

It embraces both open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property. This collection explores these ideas as the basis for a new development agenda for universities.
Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Gender and Sexualities Reader, Volume VI

This collection explores the difference that gender and sexual identities make both to theorizing and working in education and other fields.