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Peter Mayo

P_Mayo_photoPeter Mayo is Professor at the University of Malta. He is also member of the Collegio Docenti for the PhD research programme in Education, University of Verona. He has authored over a 100 papers published in refereed journals such as Critical Sociology, Capital & Class, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Comparative Education and Das Argument or as chapters in edited volumes. One of his papers won the 2011 Comparative International Education Society HE SIG. award for best published paper on international higher education. One of his 20 books, Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education (Zed Books 1999) was published in 6 other languages while his Liberating Praxis (Praeger, 2004) won a 2005 Critics Choice Award (AESA). Most recent books  include  Politics of Indignation. Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change (Zero books, 2012), Echoes from Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2013). He co-wrote, with Federico Batini and Alessio Surian, Lorenzo Milani, the School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice (Peter Lang, 2014) and,with Leona English, Learning with Adults A Critical Pedagogical Introduction – 2013 Cyril Houle Award for “outstanding literature in adult education” (AAACE). He edits two  book series, “International issues in Adult Education,” (Sense Publishers) and “Postcolonial Studies in Education,” (co-edited Palgrave-Macmillan). He also co-edits the refereed journal Postcolonial Directions in Education. His forthcoming books are Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism. Insights from Gramsci (singe authored, Routledge, 2015) and the International Critical Pedagogy Reader(co-edited, Routledge, 2015)

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