Gert Biesta is an internationally reknown researcher and philosopher of education. He is a professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University (Ireland), and professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Agder, Norway, and has recently completed a Visiting Professorship at Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland.
For many years now, Biesta has claimed that there is more to education than learning. In this regard, he developed a framework for thinking the domains of purpose of education: qualification, socialization and subjectification. In his latest book, World-Centred Education: A View for the Present (Routledge, 2021), Biesta revisits the idea of education as subjectification and explores the gesture of pointing something to someone, which he claims is fundamental in teaching.
Abstract for the open lecture
Discussions are ongoing about what should be in the centre of education. On the one hand the case is made that education should be curriculum- or knowledge-centred. On the other hand, the case is made that education should be child- or student-centred. In this presentation I will make the case that it is the world that should be in the centre of education, and that the key educational question may not be what we want from the world but what the world may want from us. I will explore dimensions of this proposed ‘turn’ in relation to my latest book, World-Centred Education: A View for the Present (Routledge, 2021).
The lecture will have two commentators:
Ingerid Straume, PhD in philosophy of education and Director of Academic Writing Centre. Ingerid Straume has published in the fields of educational theory, politics, democracy, sustainability and academic writing.
Elodie Guillemin, employee at IPED. Elodie Guillemin wrote her master thesis on Biesta’s latest book: World-Centred Education: A View for the Present (Routledge, 2021). In her thesis, she examined Biesta’s idea of education as subjectification through Biesta’s use of examples.
Practical information
The lecture and commentaries will be in English.
The lecture is organised by the research group Humanities Studies in Pedagogy (HumStud), which is part of the lecture series in educational philosophy.
This is an open lecture, there is no registration required.
There will be a small reception at the fifth floor after the lecture.
Welcome!
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| 13:30-14:30 | Open lecture with Sobhi Tawil, director of Future and Innovation in UNESCO. Do you want to know more? Click on the link. | Aud 3 |
| 15:00-17:00 | Open lecture with Gert Biesta about World-Centred Education | Aud 1 |
| 17:15- | Small reception | 5. etg |
Contact person: Elodie Guillemin (elodie.guillemin@iped.uio.no)