Beautiful Risk of EducationThis 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. |
Contents
Prologue On the Weakness of Education | 1 |
Chapter One Creativity | 11 |
Chapter Two Communication | 25 |
Chapter Three Teaching | 43 |
Chapter Four Learning | 59 |
Chapter Five Emancipation | 77 |
Chapter Six Democracy | 101 |
Chapter Seven Virtuosity | 119 |
Epilogue For a Pedagogy of the Event | 139 |
An Interview with Gert Biesta | 141 |
| 149 | |
Sources to Be Acknowledged | 157 |
| 159 | |
About the Author | 165 |
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