Biesta, Gert
(2020)
What constitutes the good of education? Reflections on the possibility of educational critique.
Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52 (10).
pp. 1023-1027.
ISSN 0013-1857
Abstract
I am grateful to Michael Peters for stepping in at the last minute when I was unable to make it
to Beijing. And I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to his reflections on the educational
good, which he formulated with reference to ideas from my book Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy (Biesta 2010), marking the occasion of the publication of the Chinese translation of this book. Michael makes a strong case for a contextual answer to the
question of good education and the good of education, which he contrasts with what he characterises as my ethical, non-contextual and, in a sense, even foundational approach. I fully agree that questions about what makes education good, what counts as good education, and what
constitutes educational goods, cannot be determined in abstracto, and cannot and should not be decided ex cathedra, that is, from some authoritarian position. On that point I think that we fully agree
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Article
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| Additional Information: |
Cite as: Gert Biesta (2020) What constitutes the good of education? Reflections on
the possibility of educational critique, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52:10, 1023-1027, DOI:
10.1080/00131857.2020.1723468 |
| Keywords: |
good education; |
| Academic Unit: |
Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Item ID: |
16032 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1723468 |
| Depositing User: |
Gert Biesta
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| Date Deposited: |
31 May 2022 15:29 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Educational Philosophy and Theory |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis online |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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