Beautiful Risk of Education

ISBN-13: 9781612050270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 178 str.

Gert J. J. Biesta

Opis

This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because education is not an interaction between machines, but an encounter between human beings. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be molded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and responsibility. Biesta's book opposes the risk aversion that characterizes many contemporary educational policies and practices and makes a strong argument for giving risk a central place in our educational endeavors. The book is organized around a critical discussion of seven key educational concepts: creativity, communication, teaching, learning, emancipation, democracy, and virtuosity. Recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association, Division B (Curriculum Studies)

Spis treści

Prologue On the Weakness of Education Chapter One Creativity Chapter Two Communication Chapter Three Teaching Chapter Four Learning Chapter Five Emancipation Chapter Six Democracy Chapter Seven Virtuosity EpilogueFor a Pedagogy of the Event Appendix Coming into the World, Uniqueness, and the Beautiful Risk of Education: An Interview with Gert Biesta by Philip Winter

O autorze

Biesta, Gert J. J.