Beautiful Risk of Education (Interventions: Education, Philosophy, and Culture) - Hardcover

Biesta, Gert J. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612050263 ISBN 13: 9781612050263

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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 students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and responsibility. The Beautiful Risk of Education is organised around a critical discussion of seven key educational concepts: creativity, communication, teaching, learning, emancipation, democracy, and virtuosity. By opposing the risk aversion that characterises many contemporary educational policies and practices, Gert J.J. Biesta makes a strong argument for giving risk a central place in our educational endeavours and brings risk taking to the forefront of a critical pedagogical practice.

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Biesta, Gert J. J.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612050263
• ISBN 13: 9781612050263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160