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Osberg, Deborah; Biesta, Gert – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
This paper problematizes current thinking about education by arguing that the question of educational purpose is not simply a socio-political question concerned with what the ends should be and why, but can also be understood as a structural question, concerned with the way we understand education's directional impetus. We suggest that it is…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Influences
Biesta, Gert – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
How might European higher education contribute to the promotion and development of European citizenship? In this article, the author addresses this question through a critical discussion of the notions of "active citizenship" and "civic competence", which play a central role in current policy and research on the role of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Biesta, Gert – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: In discussions about democratic education, there is a strong tendency to see the role of education as that of the preparation of children and young people for their future participation in democratic life. A major problem with this view is that it relies on the idea that the guarantee for democracy lies in the existence of a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Role of Education, Citizenship Education, Politics of Education
Apple, Michael W.; Biesta, Gert; Bright, David; Giroux, Henry A.; Heffernan, Amanda; McLaren, Peter; Riddle, Stewart; Yeatman, Anna – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key…
Descriptors: Barriers, Democratic Values, Equal Education, Public Education
Hannam, Patricia; Biesta, Gert; Whittle, Sean; Aldridge, David – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2020
In this paper, the central findings of a research project into religious literacy are presented. This project sought to answer the question as to whether or not religious literacy can be a way forward for religious education (RE). Starting with the idea of 'literacy', dominant approaches religious literacy in the literature are examined. An…
Descriptors: Literacy, Religious Education, Teaching Methods, Critical Literacy
Hannam, Patricia; Biesta, Gert – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
In this article we offer reflections on the final report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) that was published in England in 2018. We expose and problematise the prominent place of understanding in the report, not only as an educational method, but also the underlying world view of the report itself, a world view which we characterise…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Beliefs, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries
Biesta, Gert – Educational Theory, 2010
The idea of emancipation plays a central role in modern educational theories and practices. The emancipatory impetus is particularly prominent in critical traditions and approaches where the aim of education is conceived as that of emancipating students from oppressive structures in the name of social justice and human freedom. What is needed to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Theories, Democracy, Freedom
de Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa; Biesta, Gert; Ahenakew, Cash – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
This article explores some of the tensions at the interface of nationalist and global orientations in ideals of global mindedness and global citizenship looking specifically at the Finnish context. We engage with discussions related to the social-political and historical context of national identity in Finland and outline the conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, History, Ethnocentrism
Biesta, Gert – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
In this paper, I explore the educational significance of the work of Hannah Arendt through reflections on four papers that constitute this special issue. I focus on the challenge of reconciling ourselves to reality, that is, of being at home in the world. Although Arendt's idea of being at home in the world is connected to her explorations of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Friendship, Politics, Role
Biesta, Gert – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2012
The question as to who controls academics' knowledge is an important and increasingly urgent question. From the perspective of the good old ivory tower, it does indeed seem that corporate business has gained a high degree of control over the work of academics. The amount of money that is involved in publisher take-over deals not only shows how big…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Scholarship, Educational Research, Publishing Industry
Biesta, Gert – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011
Much work in the field of education for democratic citizenship is based on the idea that it is possible to know what a good citizen is, so that the task of citizenship education becomes that of the production of the good citizen. In this paper I ask whether and to what extent we can and should understand democratic citizenship as a positive…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Socialization
Biesta, Gert; Safstrom, Carl Anders – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
In November 2010 the authors finished the writing of a manifesto for education. The manifesto was an attempt to respond to a number of issues concerning education, both in the field of educational research and in the wider socio-political environment. This is the text of that manifesto followed by two commentaries in which the authors try to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Position Papers, Educational Principles, Educational Research
Biesta, Gert – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: Ever since the Enlightenment, there has been a strong tendency in educational theory and practice to think of education as the "production" of a subject with particular qualities, most notably the quality of rationality. This way of thinking has deeply influenced the theory and practice of democratic education and has led to an…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy
Biesta, Gert – Educational Theory, 2022
In contemporary societies, there is a strong push toward seeing education as an instrument for the delivery of particular societal agendas. On such a view, the only questions that remain are how effective education is at delivering such agendas and how its effectiveness can be increased. While this might be a desirable way forward for those who…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Theories, Political Attitudes, Criticism
Biesta, Gert – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
Ever since the idea of the "knowledge society" came into circulation, there have been discussions about what the term empirically "might" mean and normatively "should" mean. In the literature we can find a rather wide spectrum, ranging from a "utilitarian" interpretation of the knowledge society as a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Humanistic Education, Lifelong Learning
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