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2026
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China
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
70
Citations
22471
World Ranking
763
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Michael A. Peters is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences, with a notable focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Education, Political Science and International Relations, and Philosophy.

The main topics of Michael A. Peters' work cover a range of areas: Digital Education and Society, Higher Education Practices and Engagement, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Global Educational Policies and Reforms, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, and Global Education and Multiculturalism.

Key recent publications by Michael A. Peters include the following:

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19 (2020), Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • China's Internationalized Higher Education During Covid-19: Collective Student Autoethnography (2020), Postdigital Science and Education
  • AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education - Critical responses (2023), Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Viral modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the 'bioinformational' paradigm (2020), Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Postdigital-biodigital: An emerging configuration (2021), Educational Philosophy and Theory

Michael A. Peters frequently collaborates with several researchers. Regular co-authors include Petar Jandrić, Marek Tesař, Tina Besley, Ben Green, and Liz Jackson.

The scientist has contributed extensively to publications, with prominent venues including Educational Philosophy and Theory, where they have published 99 papers; Beijing International Review of Education with 26 publications; Postdigital Science and Education with 14; Revista Internacional de Pesquisa em Educação Matemática with 3; and ACCESS Contemporary Issues in Education with 2.

Michael A. Peters has authored books published by different publishers. At Springer Nature, they published three titles: Knowledge Socialism (2020), World Class Universities (2020), and Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation (2021). Additionally, Springer International Publishing released Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022), and Frontiers Media published Realizing Livelihood and Environmental Benefits of Forages in Tropical Crop-Tree-Livestock Systems (2022).

In recognition of their professional achievements, Michael A. Peters was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy: from the free market to knowledge capitalism

    Mark Olssen;Michael A. Peters

  • Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology

    Michael A. Peters;Daniel Araya

  • Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective

    Michael Peters

  • The Origins and Status of Action Research

    Michael Peters;Viviane Robinson

  • Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and Politics

    Michael A. Peters

  • Poststructuralism and educational research

    Michael Peters;Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education, and the Culture of Self

    Tina Besley;Michael Peters

  • National education policy constructions of the 'knowledge economy': towards a critique

    Michael Peters

  • Technological unemployment : Educating for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Michael A. Peters

  • Building Knowledge Cultures: Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism

    Michael A. Peters;A.C. Besley

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An EPAT Collective Project

    Michael A. Peters;Fazal Rizvi;Gary Mcculloch;Paul Gibbs

  • Education in a post-truth world

    Michael A. Peters

  • Individualism And Community: Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition

    Michael Peters;James Marshall

  • Education and the Postmodern Condition

    Michael Peters

  • Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor.

    Michael A. Peters;Ergin Bulut

  • China’s Internationalized Higher Education During Covid-19: Collective Student Autoethnography

    Michael A. Peters;Hejia Wang;Moses Oladele Ogunniran;Yingying Huang

  • Poststructuralism, Politics and Education

    Michael Peters

  • Virtues of Openness: Education, Science, and Scholarship in the Digital Age

    Michael A. Peters;Peter Roberts

  • Information, knowledge and learning: Some issues facing epistemology and education in a digital age

    Colin Lankshear;Michael Peters;Michele Knobel

  • Neoliberalism and After?: Education, Social Policy, and the Crisis of Western Capitalism

    Michael A. Peters

  • Governmentality studies in education

    MA Peters;AC Besley;Meh Olssen;S Maurer

  • Heidegger, Education, and Modernity

    Michael A. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren Chapman University
Colin Lankshear
Colin Lankshear James Cook University
Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Arjen E. J. Wals
Arjen E. J. Wals Wageningen University & Research
Ronald Barnett
Ronald Barnett University College London
Allen J. Scott
Allen J. Scott University of California, Los Angeles
Michael W. Apple
Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bill Cope
Bill Cope University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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