World-Centred Education - A Conversation with Prof. Gert Biesta

Gert Biesta 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!