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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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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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5Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought (edited book)Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2011.This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss's work is the first devoted to Strauss's thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of modern democracy and the importance of modern classical education.
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5Interview with Kevin HarrisEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (3): 209-216. 2021.This interview took place through email during October-November, 2019.Michael: It’s a real pleasure to engage you in conversation. You were a foundation member of PESA and someone who in the pre-In...
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511 Humanism, Derrida, and the new humanitiesIn Gert Biesta & Denise Egéa-Kuehne (eds.), Derrida & Education, Routledge. pp. 10--209. 2001.
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5Je m'excuse, Monsieur Lyotard: Response to ClarkEducational Philosophy and Theory 38 (3): 407-410. 2006.
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4Truth “After Postmodernism”: Wittgenstein and Postfoundationalism in Philosophy of EducationIn Stefan Ramaekers & Naomi Hodgson (eds.), Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education: Finding Space and Time for Research, Springer Verlag. pp. 89-100. 2018.In a range of path-breaking publications that shaped his engagement with educational theory Paul Smeyers sympathetically investigated the claims and ‘atmosphere’ of postmodernism. In this chapter I investigate the backlash against postmodernism that holds it responsible for ‘post-truth politics,’ and of promoting a cynical attitude to truth and facts. I argue for an intellectual history of truth in which it is contested, not only in Continental tradition and in what some have called postmodernis…Read more
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4Contesting governing ideologies: an educational philosophy and theory reader on neoliberalism (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2018.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Citation Information -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophy and Performance of Neoliberal Ideologies: History, Politics and Human Subjects -- 2 Neo-Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice -- 3 Varieties of Neo-Liberalism: a Foucaultian Perspective -- 4 The Labouring Sleepwalker: Evocation and Expression as Modes of Qualitative Educational Research -- 5 The Learning Society, the Unfinished Cosmopolitan, and Governing Education, Public Health and Cri…Read more
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4Deconstructing Derrida: tasks for the new humanities (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2005.Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a "new" humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man.
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4Higher Learning, Greater Good: the Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education – By W. W. McMahonEducational Philosophy and Theory 42 (4): 504-506. 2010.
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4Kinds of Thinking, Styles of ReasoningIn Mark Mason (ed.), Critical Thinking and Learning, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Why the Present Emphasis on Thinking? Kinds of Thinking: Heidegger on What is Called Thinking? Wittgenstein on Thinking Styles of Reasoning Notes References.
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4Poststructuralism, Politics and EducationPraeger. 1996.Using a theoretical and historical investigation, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of subject-centred reason against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and "information society" debates.
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4In search of subjectivities: an educational philosophy and theory teacher education reader (edited book)Routledge. 2015.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 the field of teacher education. The collection of texts focuses on a wide range of topics, including teacher education i…Read more
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4Hell as education: From place to state of being? Hell, Hades, Tartarus, GehinnomEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (4): 320-322. 2021.
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3The end of the decade: Reflecting on 2019 and looking forward to the next decadeTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-5. forthcoming..
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3Special issue – The Learning Society from the Perspective of GovernmentalityEducational Philosophy and Theory 38 (4): 413-414. 2006.
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3Introduction to Symposium on Hubert Dreyfus' On the InternetEducational Philosophy and Theory 34 (4): 367-368. 2002.