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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 ...
An Unorthodox Introduction
With so much technical information about research methods it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of why we carry out educational research and ...
Democratic Education for a Human Future
Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectiv...
Ethics, Politics, Democracy
The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to ex...
An Ecological Approach
Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literatur...
This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic q...
A View for the Present
This book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculu...
"In this book, Gert Biesta presents a new approach to contemporary art education by showing the unique possibilities the arts offer to establish a dia...
The Rediscovery of Teaching presents the innovative claim that teaching does not necessarily have to be perceived as an act of control but can be unde...
Demonstrates the importance of Ranciere's educational thought and how educational theory needs to be informed by his philosophical project....
Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education is the definitive textbook for reflective professionals in further, adult and vocationa...
Reconnecting School and Society
What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society argues that education is not just the...
Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words
This volume gives educational theorists the chance to let rip and say what they really want to say. In doing so it sends a blast of fresh air through ...
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This volume has its origin in the Francis T. Villemain Memorial lectures at San Jose State University – a lecture series established in 1992 to hono...
This work provides an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of e...
Introduction: The promise of politics and pedagogy / Michael A. Peters and Gert Biesta -- Deconstruction, justice, and the vocation of education / Ger...
Learning Lives
Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire populatio...
What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence...
Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning – this book develops a new way of understanding educati...