Beautiful Risk of Education

by Gert J.J. Biesta and Gert J J Biesta

Book Overview

This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because education is not an interaction between machines, but an encounter between human beings. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be molded and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612050271
• ISBN13: 9781612050270
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"