Professor Peter Mayo's latest book, Critical Education in International Perspective, has just been published in e-book and hard-copy versions.
It is co-authored with Professor Paolo Vittoria of the Università di Napoli Federico II.
This co-authored volume seeks to internationalise the discourse around critical education or pedagogy focusing on the work of people such as exponents of Italian feminism highlighting the work of Annamaria Piussi and Antonia De Vita), Gabriela Mistral, Ada Gobetti, Lorenzo Milani, Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci (with respect to Migration and the Southern Question), movements such as the Landless Peasant Movement (MST) in Brazil and such themes as Anti-Racist Education, Rural Education, Lifelong Learning and the EU and Migration.
Two of the chapters were co-authored with Brazilian scholars/activists Amilcar Araujo Pereira and Roberto Leher, the former a prominent member of the Movimiento Negro and the latter a former rector of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
The book is dedicated to the memories of one close member of the two authors' respective families (Elza Cortese and Lilian Farrugia) and Frei João Xerri (or Patri Gwann Xerri, as he is known in his native Malta) who died in late 2020 or 2021. It is published by Bloomsbury Academic in the series 'Critical Education' edited by Professor Mayo. The book carries endorsements from Professors Donatella Della Porta, Marta Soler, Raewyn Connell and Charles L. Lowery. This is second co-authored book by Professor Mayoand Professor Vittoria. In 2017, Società Editrice Fiorentina (SEF) published their Saggi di Pedagogia Critica. Oltre il Neoliberismo. Analizzando Educatori, Lotte e Movimenti Sociali.