Description: Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth explores the notion of responsibility in a complex world focusing on practices of truth-telling, interculturalism and ethnocentrism, the sources of anti-Westernism, the end of multi-culturalism, the refugee crisis and the demands of global citizenship.
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Tina (A.C.) Besley is Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. She was formerly Professor and Associate Dean at University of Waikato. Tina is President, Philosophy of Education Association of Australasia, and founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies. Tina has published widely in philosophy of education, interculturalism and global knowledge economy and cultures.
Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. He was a Professor at University of Waikato, University of Glasgow and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published over 100 books, is Editor in Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Open Review of Educational Research, holds Honorary Doctorates from State University New York and Aalborg University, Denmark, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.