Michael A Peters: 17 books
Education, Philosophy and Politics
The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in...
by Michael A. Peters OD
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the competitive world, conditioning is everything. Athletes who can get an edge have a better chance of moving up the ladder to more and more elite levels of play. But one aspect of conditioning that is often overlooked is vision. Ignored or undetected problems in the visual system have stopped many...
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...
The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Chinese Educational Philosophy Reader, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
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. This seventh volume in the Editor's Choice series provides a philosophical...
Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism
Between Theory and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
This introduction to the politics of poststructuralism focuses on two interrelated themes: the culture of Western Marxism and contemporary neoliberal capitalism. Poststructuralism is not a form of anti-Marxism, Peters argues; indeed, poststructural philosophers view themselves in some kind of relationship...
by Michael A. Peters, Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational...
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
Creativity and the Promise of Openness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national...
Building Knowledge Cultures
Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
This book develops the notion of 'knowledge cultures' as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. 'Knowledge cultures' refers to the cultural preconditions in the new production of knowledge and their basis in shared practices, embodying...
by Michael A. Peters, Jeff Stickney
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any...
by Michael A. Peters, Alicia de Alba
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Subjects in Process investigates the human subject in the first decade of the twenty-first century in relation to changing social circumstances and belongings. The concept of 'subjectivity' in the Western tradition has focused on the figure of the autonomous, self-conscious, and rooted individual....
Showing and Doing
Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking...
by Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Education plays an important role in challenging, combating and in understanding terrorism in its different forms, whether as counter-terrorism or as a form of human rights education. Just as education has played a significant role in the process of nation-building, so education also plays a strong...
Virtues of Openness
Education, Science, and Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The movement toward greater openness represents a change of philosophy, ethos, and government and a set of interrelated and complex changes that transform markets altering the modes of production and consumption, ushering in a new era based on the values of openness: an ethic of sharing and peer-to-peer...
by Romeo Vecht, Michael A. Gatzoulis, Nicholas Peters
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Over the last century the ECG has been used by clinicians to make major clinical decisions with regard to electric pacing, the use of thrombolytic drugs in acute myocardial infarction and the timing of surgery. In conjunction with a chest X-ray and the echocardiogram it is a fundamental part of the...
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