1 Gert Biesta - Philosophy of Education, Democracy, Creativity, Risk, and Subjectification

This episode we chat with Gert Biesta. Gert has made integral contributions to the fields of education theory and the philosophy of education. Currently a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland and a Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK, much of his work critically examines questions of democracy in education and education research.

World-centred Education. (In Press/2021). London/New York: Routledge.

The Rediscovery of Teaching. (2017). London/New York: Routledge.

Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society. (2019). Leiden: Brill | Sense.

Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction. (2020). London: Bloomsbury.