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  • Teacher Agency

    An Ecological Approach

    by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sarah Robinson ...
    This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred around an ecological theory of agency, it critically surveys the work that has emerged in this field in the decade since its first edition and how international trends in curriculum policy and teacher development have shaped that landscape.As ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • World-Centred Education

    A View for the Present

    by Gert Biesta ...
    This book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place.In the seven ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Educational Research

    An Unorthodox Introduction

    by Professor Gert Biesta ...
    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 where and how research might contribute to the improvement of education. Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental questions such as ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Artistry of Teaching

    Edited by Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Ramsey Affifi ...
    There is an ongoing tendency in contemporary research, policy and practice to see the teacher as a technician who, with guidance from scientific evidence about 'what works,' can become increasingly more effective in bringing about measurable learning outcomes. This book not only shows why a technical understanding of teaching is problematic, but also explores in detail what can be gained from ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Rediscovery of Teaching

    by Gert Biesta ...
    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 understood and configured as a way of activating possibilities for students to exist as subjects. By framing teaching as an act of dissensus, that is, as an interruption of egological ways of being, this book positions teaching at the progressive end of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation

    Back to Education Itself

    Edited by Patrick Howard, Tone Saevi, Andrew Foran, Gert Biesta ...
    Series series Theorizing Education
    Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation challenges the abstract-technical understanding of education to orient the reader to the importance of relationality, intersubjectivity, and otherness to renew and reclaim the educational project.This book treats education as a matter of existence, relationality, and common human concerns. It offers readers an alternative language to reveal and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Education

    Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words

    Edited by Gert Biesta ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 the dusty halls of academe. The vast majority of the literature in education theory and philosophy follows the conventions of academic writing, and rightly so. Yet its formal, abstract and objective style, which focuses on the careful presentation of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Teacher Agency

    An Ecological Approach

    by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sarah Robinson ...
    Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education

    by Dr Margaret Gregson, Professor Yvonne Hillier, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sam Duncan, Lawrence Nixon, Trish Spedding, Paul Wakeling, Professor Andrew Pollard, Dr Amy Pollard ...
    Series series Reflective Teaching
    ***Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education***is the definitive textbook for reflective professionals in further, adult and vocational education, drawing on the experience of the author team and the latest research, including that of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) findings. It offers extensive support for trainee and practising teachers in further, adult ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The New Publicness of Education

    Democratic Possibilities After the Critique of Neo-Liberalism

    Edited by Carl Anders Säfström, Gert Biesta ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education.This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the public ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by George Herbert Mead, Daniel Trohler, Gert Biesta ...
    Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was central in the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Art, Artists and Pedagogy

    Philosophy and the Arts in Education

    Edited by Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta, David Cole ...
    This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD