Journal Article10.1080/00131857.2013.871405
The Beautiful Risk of Education
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TL;DR: The last two decades have witnessed an intensification of the push to standardize education and subject it to neoliberal accountability mechanisms and technologies, at least in the advanced capitalized countries.
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Abstract: The last two decades have witnessed an intensification of the push to standardize education and subject it to neoliberal accountability mechanisms and technologies, at least in the advanced capital...
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Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy
Gert Biesta
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose, and make concrete suggestions for engaging with the question of purpose in education in a new, more precise and more encompassing way, with explicit attention to the ethical, political and democratic dimensions of education.
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Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future
Gert Biesta
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TL;DR: 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 as mentioned in this paper
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The beautiful risk of education
Gert Biesta
- 01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The Weakness of Education: An Interview with Gert Biesta by Philip Winter as discussed by the authors is a good starting point for this paper. But it is not a complete account of Biesta's life.
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Beautiful Risk of Education
Gert Biesta
- 30 Aug 2013
TL;DR: The Beautiful Risk of Education as discussed by the authors argues that real education always involves a risk, and argues 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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Disciplines and theory in the academic study of education: a comparative analysis of the Anglo-American and Continental construction of the field
TL;DR: The authors compare the two constructions of the field of education in order to understand why the field has developed so differently in different contexts and raise some important questions about the theoretical resources available for the study of education.
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