Education
University of Otago.
University of Otago.
Olssen wrote Toward A Global Thin Community: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Cosmopolitan Commitment (October 2008, Paradigm Press, Boulder, United States of America). He has also published, in 2004, a book with John Codd and Anne-Marie O’Neill of Massey University in New Zealand titled Education Policy: Globalisation, Citizenship, Democracy (Sage, London). And an edited volume Culture and Learning: Access and Opportunity in the Classroom (International Association of Prosecutors Press, New York).
Born and educated in Dunedin, New Zealand, Olssen moved to England in 2001, and has researched and taught at the University of Surrey since that date.
, (2006) ‘Foucault and the Imperatives of Education: Critique and Self Creation in a Non-Foundational World’, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 25 (3), pp.
Olssen, M., Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education., New York: Routledge, 2010
Olssen, M., Toward a Global Thin Community: Nietzsche, Foucault and the cosmopolitan commitment, Paradigm Press, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, October 2009 (See Review).