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The armageddon club : education for the future of humanityIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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The coming pandemic eraIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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The threat of nuclear war : peace studies in an apocalyptic ageIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Education for ecological democracyIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Life and death in the anthropocene : educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapseIn Michael A. Peters (ed.), Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear warIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Declinism' and discourses of decline : the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American powerIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophyIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Western civilizationIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Introduction : global apocalypse : educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survivalIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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11Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.This collection concerns educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival. It is based on a series of editorials and articles written by Michael A Peters as the Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory journal, together with colleagues in a couple of co-authored chapters, to explore the concept of global apocalypse from the educational philosophy lens. This fourteenth volume in the Editor's Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of education as it relates to the concepts of…Read more
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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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8Western civilization 101Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1582-1590. 2023.The concept of civilization in the West recognizes the origins of the term in civitas and civilité as the development of civil society and, in particular, the expression of the history of sympathy,...
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4Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophyEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1599-1607. 2023.COVV: I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit. (Pause.) It’s easy going. (Pause.) When I fall I’ll weep for happiness. (Pause. He goes towards door.)HAMM: Clov! (C...
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6The early origins of neoliberalism: Colloque Walter Lippman (1938) and the Mt Perelin Society (1947)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1574-1581. 2023.The term ‘neoliberalism’ passed into popular usage among left-wing commentators in the late 1970s as an essentially pejorative short-hand description for free market policies that were developed an...
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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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18"This book is a collection of essays motivated by a 'cultural' reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. It includes a distinctive view on the ethics of reading Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide that shaped him. It also examines the reception and engagement with Wittgenstein's work in French philosophy with a chapter on post-analytic philosophy of education as a choice between Richard Rorty and Jean-Fra…Read more
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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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51Information, knowledge and learning: Some issues facing epistemology and education in a digital ageJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (1). 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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In Search of Subjectivities: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Teacher Education Reader, Volume Ii (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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7Beyond 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
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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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2Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of DifferenceRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Reinvigorating critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions, the authors reinterpret Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to central figures and themes of critical theory.
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35Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and PoliticsRowman & Littlefield. 2001.Visit our website for sample chapters!
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36Nietzsche's legacy for education: past and present values (edited book)Bergin & Garvey. 2001.This collection of essays provides an introduction to Nietzsche's thought and educational writings, and examines questions concerning the centrality of values for education in postmodernity.
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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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