Athlone Christine Besley (born in New Zealand in 1950) is an education academic.

Education

With degrees from

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury (UC; ; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbur ...

, Christchurch Teachers' College, and

Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...

, Besley has a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in Education in 2001 from

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

titled ''Self, identity, adolescence and the professionalisation of school counselling in New Zealand: a Foucauldian-inspired approach''.

Career

Having been a NZ secondary school teacher for 16 years, she began her academic career as research fellow at University of Glasgow, Scotland in late 2000, then she moved to

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. She has been a Full Professor since appointment in 2006 at California State University San Bernardino. In 2008 she returned to

as research professor before her appointment at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...

in August 2011. She works closely and writes often with Prof. Michael A. Peters, her husband since 1996. Besley was Professor, Founding Director of the Centre for Global Studies in Education from 2012 to 2017, Associate Dean International (Faculty of Education) at University of Waikato. Besley has been President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). As a longstanding member who organised the 2014 Annual PESA conference in Hamilton, She was awarded Fellow of PESA, FPESA. She is founding President of The Association for Visual Pedagogies Inc (AVP) founded in 2015. In September 2018 she took up a position as Distinguished Professor at

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Publications

* Besley, Tina. ''Counseling Youth: Foucault, Power, and the Ethics of Subjectivity''. ABC-CLIO, 2002. * Peters, Michael A., and Tina Besley. ''Building knowledge cultures: Education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism''. Vol. 2. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. * Besley, Tina, and Peters, Michael A.. ''Subjectivity & truth: Foucault, education, and the culture of self''. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. * Besley, Tina. Foucault, truth telling and technologies of the self in schools. ''The Journal of Educational Enquiry'', vol. 6, no. 1, 2009. * Peters, Michael A., and Tina Besley. ''The creative university''. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2013. * Besley, Tina, and Peters, Michael A. ''Teaching, responsibility, and the corruption of youth''. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston: Brill Sense, 2019.

References

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