Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation / East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory (PDF)

Michael A. Peters (PhD, FNZAH, FRSA, FRSNZ, FPESA) is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University Faculty of Education PRC, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory and The Beijing International Review of Education (with Professor Xudong Zhu). He is also the founding editor of eight international journals. His interests are in education and philosophy and he has written over one hundred books, including several books on Wittgenstein. He has acted as an advisor to governments in the USA, Scotland, NZ, South Africa, UNESCO and the EU. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2008 and awarded honorary doctorates by State University of New York (SUNY at Empire State) in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015. He was made an Hon Fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) in 2010. His recently published books include: Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality (2021), Wittgenstein, Antifoundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of Education (2020), The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), The Companion to Wittgenstein and Education: Pedagogical Investigations (2017).

Tina Besley is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. She was previously Professor and Associate Dean International, in the Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Research Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Full Professor, California State University San Bernardino; and Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow where she began her academic career in late 2000, after 16 years a secondary school teacher, Head of Guidance,and Counsellor in New Zealand. She is the founding president of the Association for Visual