Beautiful Risk of Education
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781612050270
- ISBN-10: 1612050271
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: February 2014
- Dimensions: 9.07 x 5.98 x 0.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 178
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