Peter Mayo

Who is Peter Mayo?

Peter Mayo is Professor, Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta. He is also a member of the Collegio Docenti for the doctoral research programme in Educational Sciences and Continuing Education at the Universita`degli Studi di Verona. 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 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 and UBC-Vancouver. He has conducted graduate, public, academic staff or other seminars at several universities including those of Mainz, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Toronto, Rotterdam, Glasgow, London, Nottingham, Verona, Udine, Naples Federico II, the Algarve, Seville, Bogazici, Tampere, and Messina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 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 2008-2010, edits a book series on ‘international issues in adult education’ for Sense Publishers and co-edits another book series, on Postcolonial Studies in Education, for Palgrave-Macmillan.