Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the executive editor of the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and founding editor of five international journals: Policy Futures in Education, E-Learning and Digital Media, and Knowledge Cultures, The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, and Open Review of Education Research. His interests include philosophy, education and social policy and he has written over eighty books, including most recently: Wittgenstein and Education: Pedagogical Investigations (2017) with Jeff Stickney, The Global Financial Crisis and the Restructuring of Education (2015), Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy (2015) both with Tina Besley, Education Philosophy and Politics: Selected Works (2011); Education, Cognitive Capitalism and Digital Labour (2011), with Ergin Bulut; and Neoliberalism and After? Education, Social Policy and the Crisis of Capitalism (2011). He has acted as an advisor to governments and UNESCO on these and related matters in the USA, Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ in 2010 and awarded honorary doctorates by the State University of New York in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015.Tina Besley is Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). She was previously Professor and Associate Dean International, at the University of Waikato's Faculty of Education; Research Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Professor, California State University San Bernardino; and Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.  She is the founding president of the Association for Visual Pedagogies and Immediate Past President of the PESA. Tina has published over 12 books and numerous articles.  She is deputy editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory, the Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy and associate editor of the Beijing International Review of Education. Formerly she was editor of E-Learning & Digital Media and Knowledge Cultures. She works closely with Professor Michael A. Peters and a wide international network of scholars. Recent books include:Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education (2018) and Teaching, Responsibility & Corruption of Youth (2019).