Michael Peters (education academic)

Michael Adrian Peters (born 1948) is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University (previously Professor at Waikato 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.