A Question of Freedom - A Conversation with Gert Biesta

This is the second conversation that I have had with Prof. Gert
Biesta, and it is a special episode reflecting on the current
crisis in Ukraine and the wider context of this - that some call
the meta-crisis. Our first conversation earlier this year, on
World-Centred Education, can be found here:
https://anchor.fm/futurelearningdesign/episodes/On-World-Centred-Education---A-Conversation-with-Prof--Gert-Biesta-e1cqcj5. 


For more information on Gert - he is Professor of Public
Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy,
Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory
and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport,
University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds Visiting Professorships at
the University of Agder, Norway, and Uniarts, the University of
the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. Gert is a prolific author and has
written many books on the theory of education and educational and
social research, and his work has appeared in 20 different
languages. He has particular interests in national and global
education policy, curriculum, teaching and teacher education,
democracy and citizenship education, religious education and arts
education. His latest book is World-Centred Education: A View for
the Present (2021) and this is a good overview of the key ideas
in this seminal book. A selection of his previous books are The
Rediscovery of Teaching (2017); Beyond Learning: Democratic
Education for a Human Future (2015); The Beautiful Risk of
Education (2015); Good Education in an Age of Measurement:
Ethics, Politics, Democracy (2015) and Complexity Theory and the
Politics of Education [edited with Deborah Osberg] (2010) Gert is
co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor
of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate
editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits a two book series with
Routledge: Theorizing Education (with Stefano Oliverio), and New
Directions in the Philosophy of Education (with Michael A.
Peters, Liz Jackson and Marek Tesar). 


Social Links 


LinkedIn: @gert-biesta 


Twitter: Gert suspended his Twitter account only to return when
Donald Trump was no longer on the platform!