In 1988 he was appointed Headmaster of Sherborne School until his retirement in 2000. He remained there until 1979, also serving as Housemaster from 1972 to 1979, before being appointed Headmaster of Shiplake College in Oxfordshire. Upon his graduation, he taught for a year at Reed’s School in Cobham before being appointed Head of History at Loretto School in 1967. He was awarded a first-class BA Honours in History from the University of Natal and went on to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Lincoln College in Oxford. His family relocated to South Africa after the war, and he was educated at St John’s College. Peter was born in India on 8 August 1941, where his father was a medical officer during the Second World War. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Golden Eagle Award in 2009 for his caring, compassionate and principled leadership in the field of Education and his selfless service beyond the call of duty to champion education. He was captain of the 2nd XV rugby (occasionally playing for the firsts) and played 1st XI Cricket. Peter was a School Prefect in Nash House during his time at St John’s College. The school flag flies at half-mast today in memory of Peter Herbert Lapping (Nash 1958/Sixth Form 1959).
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His formal Zen training started at the Cleveland Zen Center in 1985 under Koshin Ogui Sensei, who had been Shunryu Suzuki’s personal assistant in the early 1960’s. In 1981, he began attending classes and retreats at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. Purser writings have been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly with regards to its encounter with modernity, Western consumer capitalism, and individualism. 1 & 2 (Hampton Press, 2000), The Search Conference (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 1996) and over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters. He is co-author and co-editor of eight books including, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), The Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement (Springer, 2016), 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007), The Self Managing Organization (Simon & Schuster), Social Creativity Vols. He received his doctorate in organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to moving to San Francisco, he taught at Loyola University of Chicago. is a professor of management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the last twenty six years in both the MBA and undergraduate business programs. Lecture: Cultures, Queerness, and Ethnicity, Gloria AnzaldúaĬhapter Ten - Postmodern, Postcolonial Revolution Lecture: Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooksĬhapter Nine - Cultures, Queerness, and Ethnicity The Ten Point Program and Platform of the Black Student UnionsĬhe Guevara Basic Definitions of Main ConceptsĬhapter Eight - Feminism is for Everybody The 10-Point Program of the Black Panther Party Lecture: Black Self-Determination and Self-Defense, Malcolm X Lecture: Death of the Western God, Friedrich Nietzscheīasic Definitions of Nietzsche's Main ConceptsĬhapter Six - Black Self-Determination and Self-Defense Lecture: Anarcho-Communism, Pyotr Kropotkin Lecture: Early Liberal Feminism, Olympe De GougesĬhapter Four - Anarcho-Communism, Pyotr Kropotkin Shirley Temple A Kid 'in' Africa: An Illustrated Summary and Critique Lecture: Liberalism and Eurocentrism, Jean Jacques Rousseau Chapter One - Liberalism and Eurocentrism |