Michael Adrian Peters

Michael Adrian Peters (born 1948) is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University (previously Professor at Waikato University[7]) and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[8]

Michael Adrian Peters
Born1948
Alma materAuckland University
Spouse(s)Tina Besley
AwardsHonorary Doctorate (Aalborg University, Denmark),[1] Honorary Doctor of Letters (State University of New York,[2] American Educational Studies Association Critics Book Award 2010, 2009, 2004,[3] Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Research into Higher Education,[4] Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[5]
Scientific career
ThesisThe problem of rationality : an historicist approach for philosophy of education (1984)
Doctoral studentsNesta Devine[6]
InfluencesLudwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Timothy Luke

Education

Peters received BA(Hons) in Geography from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1970; MA in Philosophy from the University of Auckland in 1980; and PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Auckland in 1984.

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