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9Hell as education: From place to state of being? Hell, Hades, Tartarus, GehinnomEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (4): 320-322. 2021..
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9Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘ the end of the world’Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1617-1627. 2023.What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. This history can be related even now; for necessity i...
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8Science, truth and conspiracy in the age of TrumpEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1647-1652. 2023.‘In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act’– George OrwellDonald Trump is on the come-back trail even although the ‘red wave did not originate at the midterms. Despite the deadly...
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8The failure of liberalism and liberal educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (9): 918-922. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 9, August 2020, Page 918-922.
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8EditorialEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (2). 2008.Editor's Comment: One of the functions of the journal is to develop an awareness of its own history. These papers are online-only papers that discuss the first ten years of the journal going back to 1969. Every so often the journal publishes synoptic articles that take a broad approach to the beginning of the Society and the journal to treat major themes and topics. As one can clearly see EPAT published many of the luminaries that helped to shape the discipline
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7Russia-China/China-Russia: Sino-Russian relations in the post-Soviet eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1664-1671. 2023.China, the most populous country in the world after India with 1.4 billion people, shares a 4200 km (2600 mi) border with Russia, the country with the world’s largest geographical territory, roughl...
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7Postfoundationalist Themes in the Philosophy of Education: Festschrift for James D. Marshall (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.This collection of essays focuses on the work of James D. Marshall, who has been active in the philosophy of education for three decades. Deals with Marshall’s long-standing criticism of the public education system in New Zealand Discusses his work considering the relevance of Wittgenstein and Foucault for philosophy of education. Features tributes to Marshall in the form of interviews and testimonials. Contains remarks from Marshall himself in response to the commentaries of his colleagues
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7Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of YouthBrill | Sense. 2018._Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth_ explores the notion of responsibility in a complex world focusing on practices of truth-telling, interculturalism and ethnocentrism, the sources of anti-Westernism, the end of multi-culturalism, the refugee crisis and the demands of global citizenship.
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7The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politicsEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 707-716. 2022.The World Health Organization has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha...
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7‘Declinism’ and discourses of decline - the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American powerEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1591-1598. 2023.Taliban forces of 75,000 overran the well-equipped 300,000+ strong Afghan army, trained and supported by US-NATO military, in a world-shattering week that toppled the US Afghan client regime and bo...
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7Academic Writing, Genres and PhilosophyEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (7): 819-831. 2008.This paper examines the underlying genres of philosophy focusing especially on their pedagogical forms to emphasize the materiality and historicity of genres, texts and writing. It focuses briefly on the history of the essay and its relation to the journal within the wider history of scientific communication, and comments on the standardized forms of academic writing and the issue of ‘bad writing’.
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7James D. Marshall: Philosopher of Education Interview with Michael A. PetersEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (3): 291-297. 2005.
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7The coming pandemic eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 656-661. 2022.There is evidence and informed expert opinion that we are entering a coming age of pandemics where humanity is exposed to lethal and highly infectious bacterial or viral diseases that have the pote...
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7Wittgenstein, mysticism and the ‘religious point of view’: ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1952-1959. 2022.The religious and spiritual aspects of Wittgenstein, his understanding of ‘das mystiche’ and his philosophy understood against the background of German mysticism has been commented on by authors to...
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6China’s rise, the Asian century and the clash of meta-civilizationsEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (6): 674-684. 2023.Michael A. Peters Beijing Normal UniversityDeclinism is back in fashion again. It is now a common and persistent source of historical reflection that has been a constant theme since the first Chris...
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6Public Intellectuals, Viral Modernity and the Problem of TruthBritish Journal of Educational Studies 70 (5): 557-573. 2022.Public intellectuals today must be understood in relation to the concept of ‘viral modernity’, characterised by viral and open media and technologies of post-truth that reveal the dramatic transformations of the ‘public’, its forms and its future possibilities. The history, status and role of the public intellectual are constituted by both the network of law in liberal society and above all the primacy of the concept of freedom of expression. The task of public intellectuals was to define, analy…Read more
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6The last large blue butterflyEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11): 1113-1115. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 11, October 2020, Page 1113-1115.
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6The geopolitical rebirth of the Anglosphere as a world actor after BrexitEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (11): 1193-1196. 2023.Over two billion people speak English making English the largest world language by number of speakers but only the third largest by number of native speakers of English. Anglophonia has a number of...
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6Drawing upon both Western and indigenous philosophies, this book engages with the indigenous self s relationship with objects around them, and how this has changed due to colonisation through a metaphysics of presence. Chapters explore the portrayal of the self in the West, examining key philosophers from Heraclitus to Heidegger and combining important theoretical ideas alongside key events which produced a greater reliance on visibility and appearance in the classroom, and in the language of ed…Read more
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5Global Britain’: The China challenge and Post-Brexit Britain as a ‘science superpowerEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 871-876. 2023.The British PM Boris Johnson is impressed with the way British science ‘liberated’ the public from Covid-19. He is reported as indicating that never before has the British people owed so much to sc...
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5Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survivalEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (10): 1065-1068. 2023.The world faces a triple apocalypse: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the huge unnecessary loss of life and the disastrous prospect of a limited ‘tactical’ nuclear war; the Covid pandemic that has...
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5Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Post-Structuralist Reader, Volume I (edited book)Routledge. 2015.This first volume focuses on a collection of texts from the latter twenty years of Educational Philosophy and Theory, selected for their critical status as turning points or important awakenings in post-structural theory. In the last twenty years, the applications of the postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives have become less mono-focused, less narrowly concerned with technical questions and also less interested in epistemology, and more interested in ethics. This book covers questions of…Read more