Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gert j j biesta

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  • PHENOMENOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL THEORY IN CONVERSATION
    GERT J. J. BIESTA / PATRICK HOWARD / ANDREW FORAN
    Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation challenges the abstract-technical understanding of education to orient the reader to the importance of relationality, intersubjectivity, and otherness to renew and reclaim the educational project. This book treats education as a matter of existence, relationality, and common human concerns. It offers readers an alternative la...

    $1,160.00

  • BEAUTIFUL RISK OF EDUCATION
    GERT J. J. BIESTA
    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 acti...

    $1,280.00

  • GOOD EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF MEASUREMENT
    GERT J. J. BIESTA
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what ...

    $1,340.00

  • BEYOND LEARNING
    GERT J. J. BIESTA
    Many 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 huma...

    $1,200.00

  • IMPROVING LEARNING THROUGH THE LIFECOURSE
    GERT BIESTA / JOHN FIELD / PHIL HODKINSON / FLORA J. MACLEOD / IVOR F. GOODSON
    Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s ability to develop new capabilities will provide them with resources that will hel...

    $1,280.00