Beautiful Risk of Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781612050263)

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.

Author: Gert Biesta
ISBN-10: 1612050263
ISBN-13: 9781612050263
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2013
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2014