Bøker av Michael A. Peters

Comprises set of essays written on and about 'postmodernism' and education. This book considers the 'end' of literature and the beginning of user-generated cultures and the implications of this shift for education and the philosophical model of dialogue that has dominated the humanities in the West.

An introduction to the broad educational significance of Wittgenstein's work for educational researchers and practitioners. Written by prominent Wittgenstein scholars.

Timely look at how education plays a key role in people's understanding of nationalism, patriotism, and terrorism.

Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism explores the nature of cognitive capitalism, the emerging mode of social production for public education and science and its promise for the democratization of knowledge.

An investigation of neoliberalism in relation to education policy and its rollback of the Keynesian welfare state. It argues that education is the basis of an open society and is a social welfare right in the merging knowledge economy. It also explores and critiques neoliberalism as the ruling ideological consensus.

Global Creation

Explores the social and global dimension of human imagining - and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. This title examines the role of aesthetic, pictorial, digital, paradoxical and other imaginative styles of thinking.

Discusses the notion of knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the economy and the communicative turn, as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. This book also focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, fast knowledge and the role of the so-called new pedagogy and social learning.

Explores the human subject in the first decade of the 21st century in relation to changing social circumstances, globalisation and postmodern theory.

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The ten essays which comprise this collection, examine a variety of related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism; his view of philosophy; his philosophy of education and culture; Rorty's comparison between Dewey and Foucault; his relation to postmodern theory; and his form of political liberalism.

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.