World-Centred Education

A View for the Present

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23398209
AutoresGert Biesta (0000-0001-8530-7105, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Páginas126
Data de publicação2021-06-28
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoWorld-Centred Education (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003098331
OpenAlexW4255847648
Open LibraryOL33868864M
ISBN9781003098331
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas127

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.

Political science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Religious Education and Schools