Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future

ISBN-13: 9781594512346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str.

Gert J. J. Biesta

Opis

Winner-2008 AESA Critics' Choice Book AwardMany educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.

Spis treści

Learning; Chapter 2: Coming into Presence; Chapter 3: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common; Chapter 4: How Difficult Should Education Be?; Chapter 5: The Architecture of Education; Chapter 6: Education and the Democratic Person; Epilogue: A Pedagogy of Interruption.

O autorze

Gert J. J. Biesta