Michael Peters (education academic)

Michael Adrian Peters is a New Zealand education academic. He is a former Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of [Illinois at Urbana–Champaign].

Education

Peters received BA(Hons) in Geography from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1970; MA in Philosophy from the University of Auckland in 1980; and PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Auckland in 1984. The title of his doctoral thesis was The problem of rationality: an historicist approach for philosophy of education.

Career

Peters became a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009. Notable doctoral students of Peters include Nesta Devine and Makere Stewart-Harawira.