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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Philosophy & theory of education

• Full title: Beautiful Risk of Education
• Author: Gert J J Biesta
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178
• EAN: 9781612050270
• ISBN: 1612050271
• ID: 02493401
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 162 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. February 2014

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