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- Title
Operationalizing Biesta: Bringing Unique Beings Into Existence in Standardized Spaces.
- Authors
Kovacs, Philip E.; Frost, Alanna
- Abstract
This essay details the authors' attempts to implement a "Biestian" curriculum in a large, rural high school. Drawing on the work of Gert Biesta's Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future, the authors discuss a methodology that begins to satisfy Biesta's theoretical underpinnings of what he calls a "humane education." Acknowledging and rejecting Biesta's warnings against turning his ideas into "technique," the authors call for operationalizing democratic educational theorists despite their protestations, as refusing to do so allows neoliberal pedagogical reforms to maintain their hegemonic dominance. We focus on Biesta in particular as he is an established, highly regarded philosopher of educational practice and policy, and we believe theoretical work such as his is exactly the type of theory that must be turned into practice, despite his protestations.
- Subjects
RURAL schools; HUMANE education; ANIMAL welfare; PHILOSOPHY of education; SECONDARY education
- Publication
Critical Education, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
1920-4175
- Publication type
Essay