Beautiful Risk of Education

By Gert J.J. Biesta and Gert J J Biesta

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612050263
• ISBN13: 9781612050263
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"