Andrew Peterson is Professor of Character and Citizenship Education at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham. With an international reputation and standing in the fields of character and citizenship education his latest books include Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Schools, Children and Communities, The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education (co-edited with Garth Stahl and Hannah Soong), The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice (co-edited with Robert Hattam, Michalinos Zembylas and James Arthur) and Civics and Citizenship in Australia: Challenges, Practices and International Perspectives (co-edited with Libby Tudball). He is also Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of South Australia.