Argues for a 'risk-based' approach to pedagogy, based on WB Yeats' view that education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358. . 2013. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Beautiful Risk of Education
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1612050263
ISBN 13: 9781612050263
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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Biesta, Gert J. J.

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