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  • FROM RADICAL MARXISM TO KNOWLEDGE SOCIALISM
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    This volume examines the place of Marxist theory in the history of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory, primarily through the selection and exploration of typical and significant articles exploring Marxist-related themes in the journal over time. The title, From Radical Marxism to Knowledge Socialism, reflects this historical approach. In the 1960s and 1970s, Marxism ...

    $1,160.00

  • BEYOND GIFTED EDUCATION
    SCOTT J. PETERS / MICHAEL S. MATTHEWS / MATTHEW T. MCBEE / D. BETSY MCCOACH
    Seeking a more comprehensive vision for gifted education, this book offers a modern vision of programs and services for gifted and talented students. Beyond Gifted Education: Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs provides the first comprehensive look at designing and implementing advanced academic student programs. Written by four leading experts in the field, B...

    $920.00

  • THE METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COLLECTIVE WRITING
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / TINA BESLEY / MAREK TESAR / LIZ JACKSON / PETAR JANDRIC / SONJA ARNDT / SEAN STURM
    This multi-authored collection covers the methodology and philosophy of collective writing. It is based on a series of articles written by the authors in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Open Review of Educational Research and Knowledge Cultures to explore the concept of collective writing. This tenth volume in the Editor's Choice series provides insights into the philosophy ...

    $1,100.00

  • THE FAR-RIGHT, EDUCATION AND VIOLENCE
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / TINA BESLEY
    In the last decade the far-right, associated with white nationalism, identitarian politics, and nativist ideologies, has established itself as a major political force in the West, making substantial electoral gains across Europe, the USA, and Latin America, and coalescing with the populist movements of Trump, Brexit, and Boris Johnson’s 2019 election in the UK. This political s...

    $1,160.00

  • PANDEMIC EDUCATION AND VIRAL POLITICS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / TINA BESLEY
    Viral modernity is a concept based upon the nature of viruses, the ancient and critical role they play in evolution and culture, and their basic application to understanding the role of information and forms of bioinformation in the social world. The concept draws a close association between viral biology on the one hand and information science on the other to understand ‘viral...

    $1,100.00

  • WHAT COMES AFTER POSTMODERNISM IN EDUCATIONAL THEORY?
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / ‎MAREK TESAR / ‎LIZ JACKSON
    Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal, this book brings together the work of over 200 international scholars, who seek to address the question: ‘What happened to postmodernism in educational theory after its alleged demise?’. Declarations of the death knell of postmodernism are now quite commonplace. Scholars in various disciples have...

    $1,200.00

  • WITTGENSTEIN, ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM, TECHNOSCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    This book is a collection of essays motivated by a "cultural" and biographical reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. The book focuses on the concept of “technoscience”, and the relevance of Wittgenstein’s work for philosophy of technology which amplifies Lyotard’s reading and provides a...

    $1,160.00

  • THE CHINESE DREAM: EDUCATING THE FUTURE
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    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 and historical analysis of The Chinese Dream by analyzing its major intersectin...

    $1,160.00

  • THE NATURE OF HEALTH
    MICHAEL FINE / JAMES PETERS
    This pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health" presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a heal...

    $1,760.00

  • TROUBLING THE CHANGING PARADIGMS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and early childhood education. The philosophy of the early years is complex, and this book demonstrates how this fascinating subj...

    $1,280.00

  • EDUCATION, GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATE IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    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 role in the process of empire, globalization and resistance to global forces-an...

    $1,540.00

  • IN SEARCH OF SUBJECTIVITIES
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    While traditionally identified as a practice-based endeavour, the many dimensions of teacher education raise important philosophical issues that emphasise the centrality of ethics to questions of relationality and professional practice. This second volume of the Educational Philosophy and Theory reader series demonstrates the continuing relevance of philosophical approaches to ...

    $1,380.00

  • VIRTUES OF OPENNESS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / PETER ROBERTS
    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 collaboration enabled through new architectures of participation. These cha...

    $1,280.00

  • SHOWING AND DOING
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / NICHOLAS C. BURBULES / PAUL SMEYERS
    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 and its centrality to understanding our contemporary condition. Wittgenstein fu...

    $1,640.00

  • SUBJECTS IN PROCESS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / ALICIA DE ALBA
    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. This book develops a conception of the subject that is nomadic and fluid rather t...

    $1,520.00

  • EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS
    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 a single manageable volume. Michael A. Peters has spent the last 30 years resear...

    $1,240.00

  • COUNTERNARRATIVES
    HENRY A. GIROUX / COLIN LANKSHEAR / PETER MCLAREN / MICHAEL PETERS
    To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education withi...

    $1,100.00

  • INDIVIDUALISM AND COMMUNITY
    MICHAEL PETERS / JAMES MARSHALL
    Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social labor...

    $1,540.00