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World-Centred Education - A View for the Present (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,134
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World-Centred Education - A View for the Present (Hardcover): Gert Biesta

World-Centred Education - A View for the Present (Hardcover)

Gert Biesta

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This book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place. In the seven chapters in this book Gert Biesta explores in detail what an existential orientation to education entails and why this should be an urgent concern for education today. He highlights the importance of teaching, not understood as the transmission of knowledge and skills but as an act of (re)directing the attention of students to the world, so that they may encounter what the world is asking from them. The book thus shows why teaching matters for education. It also highlights the unique position of the school as the place where the new generation is given the time to meet the world and meet themselves in relation to the world. The extent to which society is still willing to make this time available, is an important indicator of its democratic quality. This important text demonstrates, not only to academics, but also to students, teachers, school administrators, and teacher educators, the urgency of a world-centred orientation for education today.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2021
First published: 2022
Authors: Gert Biesta
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-56553-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
LSN: 0-367-56553-6
Barcode: 9780367565534

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