Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (Interventions: Education, Philosophy & Culture) - Hardcover

Biesta, Gert J. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594517908 ISBN 13: 9781594517907

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good education has become so much more difficult to ask and shows why this has been detrimental for the quality of education and for the level of democratic control over education. He provides concrete suggestions for engaging with the question of purpose in education in a new, more precise and more encompassing way, with explicit attention to the ethical, political and democratic dimensions of education.

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About the Author:

Gert Biesta (www.gertbiesta.com) is Professor of Educational Theory and Policy at the University of Luxembourg, former president of the Philosophy of Education Society USA, and editor-in-chief of the journal Studies in Philosophy and Education. He has published widely on the theory and philosophy of education. With Paradigm Publishers he published Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future (2006) – winner of the 2008 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award – and Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (2010). He also co-edited George Herbert Mead's The Philosophy of Education (2008).

Review:

“In his latest book Gert Biesta demonstrates, yet again, why he is one of our era’s most thoughtful educational scholars and critics.”
―David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1594517908
• ISBN 13: 9781594517907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160