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World-centred Education A View for the Present

Paperback • 2021 • English • 1. edition

World-centred Education A View for the Present

By Gert Biesta

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About the book

This book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place. In the seven chapters in this book Gert Biesta explores in detail what an existential orientation to education ...Show more

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ISBN

9780367565527

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2021

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

World-centred Education A View for the Present

Format

Paperback

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