Peter Mayo

Peter Mayo (born 1955) is Professor and Head of the Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta. He teaches in the areas of sociology of education and adult continuing education, as well as in comparative and international education and sociology in general. Among his major contributions is a comparative analysis of Paulo Freire's and Antonio Gramsci's educational thinking, about which he has carried out workshops or delivered seminars (with colleagues) in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Hamburg,Vienna and Berlin.

An invited keynote speaker at international conferences, he has held short-term visiting professorial appointments at the University of Alberta, University of Cyprus, Bogazici University (Istanbul) and UBC-Vancouver('Noted Scholar' in Residence). He has conducted graduate, public, academic staff or other seminars at several universities including those of Mainz (block seminars), Hamburg, Frankfurt, Toronto (OISE), Rotterdam (International Institute of Social Studies at Den Haag), Glasgow (CRADALL Seminar), London (Institute of Education; Goldsmiths College), Nottingham (CSSGJ seminar), Verona (doctoral seminars), Udine, Naples Federico II, the Algarve, Seville, Bogazici, Tampere, and Messina (both teleconferencing), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro as well as the American University in Cairo. He was the President of the Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education (MESCE) 2008-2010, edits a book series on ‘international issues in adult education’ for Sense Publishers and co-edits another book series (with Anne Hickling Hudson and Antonia Darder), on Postcolonial Studies in Education, for Palgrave-Macmillan.

His internationally acknowledged work includes over 80 papers published in international refereed journals or as chapters in edited books. In 2011 he was given the Comparative International Education Society Higher Education SIG award for best published research article on Higher Education from an international and comparative perspective. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Policy Futures in Education (Symposium), Encylopaideia (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell). He recently guest edited a special issue of Comparative Education (Routledge, 2008) and was also guest editor of a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Books

• The National Museum of Fine Arts, Midsea Publications, Malta

• Beyond Schooling (co-edited with G. Baldacchino, Mireva, Malta, 1997)

• Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education (Zed Books, London, 1999); also published in Catalan (Crec, Xativa-Valencia), Portuguese (Artmed, Porto Alegre), German (Argument Verlag, Hamburg), Italian (Carlo Delfino Editore, Sassari), Spanish (Instituto Paulo Freire de España y edicions del CREC; col.laboradores: denes editorial y diálogos.red, Valencia) and Turkish (UTOPYA, Ankara)

• Gramsci and Education (co-edited with C. Borg and J.A. Buttigieg, Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, 2002) also published in Turkish translation, as Gramsci ve Eğitim, by Kalkedon Publishing House. Currently being prepared in Catalan and Spanish translation by Crec-Xativa.

• Liberating Praxis (Praeger, Westport CT, 2004, AESA Critics Choice Award 2005; in paperback by Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008 and in Catalan translation by Crec, Xativa-Valencia, 2008)

• Learning and Social Difference. (co-authored with C. Borg, Paradigm, Boulder Co., 2006)

• Education, Society and Leadership (co-edited with M. Darmanin, Allied Publishers, Malta, 2007),

• Adult Education in Malta (DVV-International, Bonn, 2007)

• Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements. A Book of Interviews (with C. Borg, Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2007).

• Mediterranean Studies in Comparative Education, (co-edited with C. Borg and R. G. Sultana, MESCE and EMCER, 2009).

• Education in Small States. Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas (edited, London and New York, Routledge, 2009)

• Gramsci and Educational Thought (edited, Oxford and New York,Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction (co-authored with Leona English), Rotterdam: Sense Publishers (in press).

External links

• Peter Mayo's Publications list