The 42nd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Inc.

2012 PESA Conference, 7 – 10 December 2012, Chiayi, Taiwan

Keynote Speakers

Professor Michael A. Peters
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois 
Professor, Policy, Cultural & Social Studies in 
Education University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2011-
Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2011-
Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--2011
Adjunct Professor in the School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University.

Editor
Educational Philosophy & Theory - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0013-1857
Policy Futures in Education - http://www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE/
E-Learning and Digital Media - http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/
Philosophy of Education portal - http://wip.philofedportal.org/
Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education - http://www.ffst.hr/ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Personal website: http://www.michaeladrianpeters.com/
Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of NZ:
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/current-honorary-fellows/?ma-peters
Website: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/about/faculty-staff/?user=mpeters


Professor Shen-Keng Yang
Chair Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 2007-
Chair Professor & Vice-Present, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, 2003-2007.
Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 1998-2003
Professor & Chair, Graduate Institute of Comparative Education, National Chi-Nan University, Natou, Taiwan, 1996-1998
National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2000-2003
National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 1996-1999
Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A., Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. 



Professor Tsao-Lin Fong
Professor, College of Education,National Cheng-Chi University, TAIWAN, 2000〜
Chair, Department of Education, National Cheng-Chi University, 2000-2002
Director, Graduate Institute of Early Childhood Education, National Cheng-Chi University, 2009-2012
Vice-Dean, College of Education, National Cheng-Chi University, 2009-2011
President, Formosa Alternative Pedagogy Association (FAPA), TAIWAN,2005-2007
Visiting Professor, Heidelberg University, GERMANY, 06/1999-09/1999
Director, Hsin-Zhung Community University, New Taipei City, 1999-2002, 2007〜
Editor-in-Chief, Alternative Pedagogy, TAIWAN, 2009〜




Professor Paul Standish
Professor of Philosophy of Education
Head of Philosophy Section, Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education University of London
Editor, Journal of Philosophy of Education Editorial Board Member, Ethics and Education Editorial Board Member, Teoria de la Educacion Editorial Board Member, Chinese Journal of Philosophy of Education Editorial Board Member, Journal of Aesthetic Education



Professor Peter Roberts 
Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2008 - Present   
University of Auckland, 1995-2008
University of Waikato 1988-1994.
Director of the Educational Theory, Policy and Practice Research Hub at the University of Canterbury
Vice-President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA)
Fellow of PESA in recognition of ‘outstanding service to the Society and to the discipline of Philosophy of Education’ 2008.
Canterbury Fellow at the University of Oxford, 2010.
Inaugural Rutherford Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2012.

Publications
Education, Literacy and Humanization: Exploring the Work of Paulo Freire (2000) 
Digital Developments in Higher Education: Theory and Practice, co-edited with Mark Chambers (2001) 
Neoliberalism, Higher Education and Research, with Michael Peters (2008) 
Paulo Freire in the 21st Century: Education, Dialogue, and Transformation (2010) 
The Virtues of Openness: Education, Science, and Scholarship in the Digital Age, with Michael Peters (2012).  
From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work (2012) 
Shifting Focus: Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education (an edited collection, 2013)
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia, with John Freeman-Moir (2013)
Education and the Limits of Reason: Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, with Herner Sæverot (2014).