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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

    $55.99 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

    $68.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $42.09 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

  • Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation

    by Professor Charles Bingham, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    *Winner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book AwardJacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation* demonstrates the importance of Rancière's work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancière's educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics. Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta illustrate brilliantly how philosophy can benefit from Rancière's particular way of ... Read more

    $44.59 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

    $32.39 USD

  • Improving Learning through the Lifecourse

    Learning Lives

    by Gert Biesta, John Field, Phil Hodkinson, Flora J. Macleod, Ivor F. Goodson ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s ability to develop new capabilities will provide them with resources that will help them and the wider ... Read more

    $63.99 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

  • Narrative Learning

    by Ivor F. Goodson, Gert Biesta, Michael Tedder, Norma Adair ...
    What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives?Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning?Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life stories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory which focuses on the role of narrative and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Improving Learning Cultures in Further Education

    by David James, Gert Biesta ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning – this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn. Based on detailed ethnographic research of seventeen learning sites in further education colleges, this book generates a unique ... Read more

    $68.99 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