Educational Philosophy and Post-Apocalyptical Survival

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. He is the Executive Editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy, and he is the author of over 100 books, including The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), Wittgenstein, Education and Rationality (2020) and Wittgenstein: Antifoundationalism, Technoscience and Education (2020). Tina Besley is Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. She is the Founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies, Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and honoured as a Fellow of both learned societies. She has published over 30 books and monographs and numerous journal articles. Currently, she is Editor and Project Manager for PESA Agora and Associate Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and the Beijing International Review of Education.

Introduction: Global Apocalypse: Educational Philosophy and Post-apocalyptical Survival 1. Western civilization 101 2. Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophy 3. ‘Declinism’ and discourses of decline - the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American power 4. Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear war 5. The threat of nuclear war: Peace studies in an apocalyptic age 6. Life and death in the Anthropocene: Educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapse 7. Education for ecological democracy 8. Citizen science and post-normal science in a posttruth era: Democratising knowledge; socialising responsibility 9. Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘the End of the World’ 10. The coming pandemic era 11. The Armageddon Club: education for the future of humanity 12. Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survival 13. Postscript: Zombie Education and Culture in the Global Apocalypse: Pedagogies of the Walking Dead