Tina
Besley is Professor of Education at
Waikato University, New Zealand and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and Guangzhou University, China. Previously she was Research Professor in the Department of
Educational Policy Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 2011.
Tina has wide research interests and is a prolific scholar. Her research
ranges widely over philosophy of education, school counseling, educational politics
and policy, globalization, research assessment in higher education, subjectivity
and youth studies, elearning, social networking and the global knowledge economy.
Her four books on Michel Foucault have been critically
acclaimed. In 2009, her book, Subjectivity and Truth:
Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), co-authored with Michael A. Peters,
was awarded the American Educational Studies Association Critics
Choice Award. In 2009 she was made a Faculty Fellow in the Academy for
Entrepreneurial Leadership, College of Business, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
