Dr Si Belkacem TAIEB, Decolonizing Indigenous Education: An Amazigh-Berber Ethnographic journey, (Palgrave MacMillan: New York) 2014

In this work exploring the Kabyle people of Algeria and their educational journeys, Si Belkacem Taieb explores an epistemological and ontological framework for Kabyle education. He does so by undertaking a narrative inquiry: an auto-ethnographic journey, in which the journey of one's self and the journey of one's people are inextricably intertwined.In a postcolonial cultural journey in an indigenous, North African Kabyle landscape and the development of an Amazigh educational philosophy, Taieb writes the sociological foundations of an Amazigh educational system: one that removes Amazigh education from its colonial heritage and restores it to the people who create and use it.

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/decolonizing-indigenous-education-si-belkacem-taieb/?K=9781137446916

Jackson, Liz, Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism, (Routledge) 2014

Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education explores the complex interface that exists between the U.S. school curriculum, teaching practice about religion in public schools, societal and teacher attitudes toward Islam and Muslims, and multiculturalism as a framework for meeting the needs of minority group students. It presents multiculturalism as a concept that needs to be rethought and reformulated in the interest of creating a more democratic, inclusive, and informed society.

Islam is an under-considered religion in American education, due in part to the fact that Muslims represent a very small minority of the population today (less than 1%). However, this group faces a crucial challenge of representation in United States society as a whole, as well as in its schools. Muslims in the United States are impacted by ignorance that news and opinion polls have demonstrated is widespread among the public in the last few decades. U.S. citizens who do not have a balanced, fair and accurate view of Islam can make a variety of decisions in the voting booth, in job hiring, and within their small-scale but important personal networks and spheres of influence, that make a very negative impact on Muslims in the United States.

This book presents new information that has implications for curricula, religious education, and multicultural education today, examining the unique case of Islam in U.S. education over the last 20 years.

This book is an essential resource for professors, researchers, and teachers of social studies, particularly those involved with multicultural issues, critical and sociocultural analysis of education and schools; as well as interdisciplinary scholars and students in anthropology and education.

Preface provided by Nicholas C. Burbules, University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415705042/

http://www.amazon.com/Muslims-Islam-U-S-Education-Multiculturalism/dp/0415705045

Freakley, Mark; Burgh, Gilbert, Mark Freakley & Tilt MacSporran, Lyne, Values Education in Schools: A resource book for student inquiry, (ACER Press: Camberwell, Victoria) 2008

Values Education in Schools is an important new resource for teachers involved in values and ethics education. It provides a range of ‘practical philosophy’ resources for secondary school teachers that can be used in English, religious education, citizenship, personal development and social science subjects. The materials include narratives to engage students in philosophical inquiry, doing ethics through the activity of philosophy, not simply learning about it.

https://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/product/A4030BK

Peters, Michael A., Besley, Tina, & Araya, Daniel, The New Development Paradigm: Education, Knowledge Economy and Digital Futures, (Peter Lang: New York) 2013

Although the concept of «development education» has been widely adopted, the term is still not widely understood. With the advent of globalization, the knowledge economy, and, in particular, the formulation of the World Bank’s «knowledge for development» strategy and the UNDP’s «creative economy», development issues have become a central part of education and education has become central to development. It is time to reassess the standard development education paradigm and to investigate the possibilities that take into account emerging trends. The New Development Paradigm, written by international authorities, focuses on three related themes: education, the knowledge economy and openness; social networking, new media and social entrepreneurship in education; and technology, innovation and participatory networks.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Development-Paradigm-Education/dp/1433118874

Peters, Michael A., Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, (Routledge: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon) 2012

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

Michael A. Peters has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed over 60 books (authored, co-authored and edited) and 500 articles to the field.

In Education, Philosophy and Politics, Michael A. Peters brings together 15 of his key writings in one place, including chapters from his best-selling books and articles from leading journals. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Michael's career and contextualises his selection, the essays are then arranged thematically to create a pathway of a way of thinking in philosophy of education which is forward looking but takes account of tradition and the past. The subjects of the chapters include;

Wittgenstein Studies
Philosophical Critique of Modernity
French Poststructuralism
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Foucault & Deleuze
Derrida
American Pragmatism
Rorty
Cavell
Philosophy and racism
Through this book, readers can follow the themes and strands that Michael A. Peters has written about for over three decades and clearly see his important contribution to the field of education.

http://www.amazon.com/Education-Philosophy-Politics-Selected-Educationalists/dp/0415686059

Peters, Michael A., Citizenship, Human Rights and Identity: Prospects of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Order, (Addleton Academic Publications: New York) 2013

This book focuses on the notion of citizenship in relation to the notions of
human rights, identity and culture. It poses the question of the prospects of a
liberal cosmopolitan order dealing with a number of interrelated themes:
ethics, emancipation and what Derrida calls the “new humanities;” identity,
war and crimes against humanity; citizenship, and education rights within a
knowledge economy; colonization, development and peace; changing notions
of democracy within an information society; and culture, difference and
otherness. These are the themes that make problematic aspects of the liberal
cosmopolitan order. One of the main tropes connecting these themes is how
the primary liberal values of freedom, emancipation and equality work out in
a globalized world. The interrelationship of these values are problematized in
different settings as they relate to issues of global world order with a focus on
the adaptability of the liberal framework of values and law in creating a
genuine cosmopolitan order.

http://www.amazon.com/Citizenship-Human-Rights-Identity-Cosmopolitan-ebook/dp/B00HXBYUUU

Peters, Michael A., Obama and The End of the American Dream: Essays in Political and Economic Philosophy, (Sense: Rotterdam) 2012

The American Dream that crystallized around James Truslow Adams' The Epic of America originally formulated in the early 1930s and was conditioned by a decade of complexity and contradiction, of big government projects, intensely fierce nationalism, the definition of the American way, and a distinctive collection of American iconic narratives has had the power and force to successively reshape America for every new generation. Indeed, Adam's dream of opportunity for each according to ability or achievement shaped against the old class culture of Europe emphasizes a vision of social order in which each person can succeed despite their social origins. Barack Obama, a skillful rhetorician and intelligent politician, talks of restoring the American and has used its narrative resources to define his campaign and his policies. In a time of international and domestic crisis, of massive sovereign debt, of the failure of neoliberalism, of growing inequalities, the question is whether the American Dream and the vision of an equal education on which it rests can be revitalized.

http://www.amazon.com/Obama-The-End-American-Dream/dp/9460917690

Lazariou, George, Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends • A Festschrift for Michael A. Peters, (Addleton Academic Publications: New York) 2014

The notion of an academic friendship implied in “book of friends” -- Liber amicorum -- suggests a mutual caring about ideas and their representation, an intimacy that differs from the impersonal and bureaucratic relationships that distinguish neoliberal universities, and shared activity in the joint pursuits of conferences, seminars, books and papers implied in co-authorship, in a shared body of literature, in shared perspectives. Academic friendship is built into the notion of philosophy and is not only a shared love of wisdom in the original Greek meaning of the term but an essential relation that is at the basis of being a colleague: it is inherent in the idea of dialogue, communication and the very possibility of conversation.

This Romantic analysis that revolves around academic exchange, mutual acknowledgement, and shared standards of scholarship stands in marked contrast to the knowledge hoarding and privatisation of research that characterises the neoliberal university that imposes its industrial line management psychology to police, monitor and increasingly spy on the performativity of its faculty. In the “university of friends” it is our special responsibility to be critical of one another and to learn to take criticism in a positive sense as the lifeblood of scholarship: criticism without meanness, without rancour, and without nastiness.

http://www.amazon.com/Liber-amicorum-Philosophical-Conversation-Contemporary-ebook/dp/B00N8YKRVM

Peters, Michael A. & Besley, Tina, The Creative University, (Sense: Rotterdam) 2013

The concept of the “Creative University” signals that higher education stands at the center of the creative economy indicating the growing significance of intellectual capital and innovation for economic growth and cultural development. Increasingly economic activity is socialised through new media and depends on immaterial and digital goods.

This immaterial economy includes new international labour markets that demand analytic skills, global competencies and an understanding of markets in tradeable knowledges. Delivery modes in education are being reshaped. Global cultures are spreading in the form of knowledge and research networks.

Openness, networking, cross-border people movement, flows of ideas, capital and scholars are changing the conditions of imagining and producing creative work. The economic aspect of creativity refers to the production of new ideas, aesthetic forms, scholarship, original works of art and cultural products, as well as scientific inventions and technological innovations. It embraces both open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property.

This collection explores these ideas as the basis for a new development agenda for universities.

The chapters that form this edited book are a selection of papers given at an international conference held called The Creative University held at the University of Waikato on 15-17 August 2102. This conference investigated all the aspects of education in (and as) the creative economy.

https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/creative-education-bookseries/the-creative-university/#!prettyPhoto

Besley, Tina & Peters, Michael A., Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century, (Sense: Rotterdam) 2013

The creative university is a new concept that has a number of competing conceptions emphasizing digital teaching, learning and research infrastructures, the paradigm of intellectual property, creative social development and academic entrepreneurship. Not only does the concept include the fostering and critique of creative content industries and new forms of distance and online education but more fundamentally it refers to a reassessment of neoliberal strategies to build the knowledge economy. The economic aspect of creativity refers to the production of new ideas, aesthetic forms, scholarship, original works of art and cultural products, as well as scientific inventions and technological innovations. It embraces open source communication as well as commercial intellectual property. All of this positions education at the center of the economy/ creativity nexus. But are education systems, institutions, assumptions and habits positioned and able so as to seize the opportunities and meet the challenges? This book uses different contexts to explore these vital issues.

https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/creative-education-bookseries/re-imagining-the-creative-university-for-the-21st-century/

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr., & Peters, M. A. (Eds.), Of Other Thoughts: Non-traditional ways to the doctorate. A guidebook for candidates and supervisors, (Sense Publishers: Rotterdam, Netherlands) 2013

Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research—transcultural, post-colonial, trans-disciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society.

Barbara Bolt | Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training | The Victorian College of the Arts |University of Melbourne | Australia

These writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work count for more. They examine multiple sites where conservative politics and ethics, institutional regulations, culturally constrained supervisory practices, and disciplinary boundary maintenance run counter to the radical and transforming potential of critical PhD work.

Graham Hingangaroa Smith | Distinguished Professor | Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi| Whakatāne | Aotearoa – New Zealand

This book makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the growing literature on doctoral education. Readers will find a wonderfully diverse collection of perspectives on non-traditional paths to the PhD. The book synthesises theory with practice in a highly effective and engaging

https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/other-books/of-other-thoughts-non-traditional-ways-to-the-doctorate/

Burgh, Gilbert; Field, Terri & Freakley, Mark, Ethics and the Community of Inquiry: Education for deliberative democracy, (Cengage) 2006

Ethics and the Community of Inquiry gets to the heart of democratic education and how best to achieve it. The book radically reshapes our understanding of education by offering a framework from which to integrate curriculum, teaching and learning and to place deliberative democracy at the centre of education reform. It makes a significant contribution to current debates on educational theory and practice, in particular to pedagogical and professional practice, and ethics education.

Ethics and the Community of Inquiry develops a practical philosophy of education that addresses professional values and conduct and pedagogical practice.

http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?product_isbn=9780170122191

http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00419.x

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