1st Edition
Good Education in an Age of Measurement Ethics, Politics, Democracy
By Gert J. J. Biesta
Copyright 2010
158 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Prologue On the Question of Purpose in Education; Chapter 1a What Is Education For?; Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Education between Science and Democracy; Chapter 3 Education between Accountability and Responsibility; Chapter 4 A Pedagogy of Interruption; Chapter 5 Democracy and Education after Dewey; Chapter 6 Education, Democracy and the Question of Inclusion; Chapter 7 Epilogue The End(s) of Learning;
Biography
Gert J. J. Biesta
“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
