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21The Philosophy of Education as the Economy and Ecology of Pedagogical KnowledgeStudies in Philosophy and Education 34 (6): 651-664. 2015.What does reflection on educational theory and education today actually aim at, if theory and practice can no longer be formulated as a unity? This article describes the German discourse of educational philosophy and outlines its critical view discussing the “limits of understanding subjectivity”. In the following parts it is argued that the philosophy of education of the future will encompass an “economy” as well as an “ecology” of pedagogical or educational knowledge. Here, analyses of contemp…Read more
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21Anti-art, anti-philosophy, anti-psychiatry, anti-educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (7): 709-715. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 709-715.
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21Education and the philosophy of the subject (or constitution of self)Educational Philosophy and Theory 29 (1): 75-88. 1997.(1997). Education and the philosophy of the subject (or constitution of self) Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. v-xi. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.1997.tb00523.x
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21Philosophy of education in a new key: Publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversationEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1216-1233. 2022.Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in securing the common good. The common good is never what individuals or particular groups want or desire, but always reaches beyond such particular desires to…Read more
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21Back from the Brink, a new humanities? An interview with Brian OpieEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (13): 1283-1292. 2019.Volume 51, Issue 13, December 2019, Page 1283-1292.
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20New age spiritualism, mysticism, and far-right conspiracyEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1608-1616. 2023.When the moon is in the Seventh HouseAnd Jupiter aligns with MarsThen peace will guide the planetsAnd love will steer the starsThis is the dawning of the age of Aquarius–‘The Age of Aquarius’, 5th...
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20The open peer review experiment in Educational Philosophy and Theory(EPAT)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (2): 133-140. 2023.Open Peer Review: Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT)Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University, PR ChinaIn 2016 EPAT started experimenting with open peer review for articles that were part...
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20Academic integrity: An interview with Tracey BretagEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (8): 751-756. 2018.Volume 51, Issue 8, July 2019, Page 751-756.
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20The ancient Silk Road and the birth of merchant capitalismEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 955-961. 2021.https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/silk-roadThe ancient Silk Road is an image and metaphor that has been revived as the basis for what President Xi has called ‘the project of the ce...
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19Educational "reforms" and new right thinking: An example from new zealandEducational Philosophy and Theory 23 (2). 1991.
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19US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading accountEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1501-1512. 2022.In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i...
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19Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Social visions and philosophy of education – An EPAT collective projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1550-1559. 2022.
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19China’s double first-class university strategy: 双一流Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (12): 1075-1079. 2018.
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19The University and the New HumanitiesArts and Humanities in Higher Education 3 (1): 41-57. 2004.Recently, Derrida has pointed to the university to come and the future of the professions within a place of resistance, and yet maintained the historical link to two ideas that mediate and condition both the humanities and the performative structure of acts of profession: human rights and crimes against humanity. Derrida maintains that the ‘modern university should be unconditional’, by which he means that it should have the ‘freedom’ to assert, to question, to profess, and to ‘say everything’ i…Read more
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19A viral theory of post-truthEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 698-706. 2022.There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds, and it is characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself.–Gregory Bateson, Steps Towards an Ecology of Mind...
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19The disorder of things: Quarantine unemployment, the decline of neoliberalism, and the Covid-19 lockdown crashEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (12): 1195-1198. 2021.Rarely in economics does the field see such unambiguous causation as in the case of the Covid-19 shut down of the global economy. Pretty well every economist would agree to this proposition and whi...
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19Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African universitiesEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1099-1112. 2022.
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19The threat of nuclear war: Peace studies in an apocalyptic ageEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (1): 1-4. 2017.
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19Alain Badiou’s Wittgenstein’s AntiphilosophyEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (7): 699-703. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 699-703.
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19Educational philosophies of self-cultivation: Chinese humanismEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (11): 1720-1726. 2022.Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the foundation and cultural ethos for education have a strong and historically effective tradition stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cra...
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19The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A SymposiumEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1531-1549. 2022.
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19The aesthetics of collective writing: A Chinese/Western collective essayEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 888-896. 2023.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityThe ancient concept of ‘self-cultivation’ with its roots in Confucianism and Hellenistic philosophy can also be utilised as tool for understanding the prac...
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19The Chinese Dream, Belt and Road Initiative and the future of education: A philosophical postscriptEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (7): 857-862. 2022.In the Preface to The Chinese Dream: Education the Future I wrote:This is a work in narrative. It tells a story about modern China – a story of an economic and cultural miracle. But...
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18Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital AgeJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (1): 17-39. 2000.Philosophers of education have always been interested in epistemological issues. In their efforts to help inform educational theory and practice they have dealt extensively with concepts like knowledge, teaching, learning, thinking, understanding, belief, justification, theory, the disciplines, rationality and the like. Their inquiries have addressed issues about what kinds of knowledge are most important and worthwhile, and how knowledge and information might best be organised as curricular act…Read more
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18Truth and self-knowledgeTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (2): 105-111. 2019.Volume 53, Issue 2, February 2021, Page 105-111.
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18Go home, team America: The new paradox of western ‘democracy’ around the worldEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11): 1109-1112. 2020.Volume 52, Issue 11, October 2020, Page 1109-1112.