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Peter Mayo
University of Malta
Peter Mayo is Professor at the University of Malta where he holds the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education..He has taught and published widely in Sociology (including Sociology of Education), Political Studies, Adult Education, Comparative and International Education and Postcolonial Education. He is a founding editor of Postcolonial Directions in Education and guest editor of the book series Postcolonial Studies in Education for Palgrave Macmillan. He edits book series for Brill and Bloomsbury Academic. He has published 24 books only 8 of which are edited volumes, and over 150 papers in journals or as chapters in edited books. One of his single-authored books, on Gramsci and Freire, went into reprint and was published in eight languages. In 2019 he was inducted into the International Adult Continuing Education Hall of Fame. He at present edits Convergence: The International Adult Education Journal.
Talk Information:
20 Years of Engagement in Postcolonial Education: A Retrospective
August 5, 2022 | 9:00 AM
In this talk, Peter Mayo provides a reflective retrospective of more than twenty years involvement in Postcolonial Education with special reference to his personal role in setting up a book series and a journal in the field. He exposes different interpretations of the term Postcolonial, his collaboration with and support from luminaries in the Postcolonial area, and misgivings expressed by other luminaries in related areas. What are the areas he saw of major concern for Postcolonial education as reflected in the articles carried by the journal and some themes of relevance he addressed in his own work? He leaves the journal editorship as he follows the well trodden path, though not a mandatory one, that one should not exceed ten years in editing a single specific journal.