NEWS: I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new book:

Bingham, C. & Biesta, G.J.J. with Jacques Rancière (2010). Jacques Rancière: Education, truth, emancipation. London/New York: Continuum. [currently available in the UK -- see here; to be released in North America in October -- see here]

NEWS: On Friday 27 August I will be presenting at the ECER conference in Helsinki together with Gillian Cowell. Our paper is called: Democratic learning in translation: The pipers of Allandale, public history, and the politics of community education

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Thank you for visiting my website [last updated 24 August 2010].

A quick word about me: I am Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, UK, where I co-direct our Laboratory for Educational Theory, and editor-in-chief of Studies in Philosophy and Education. I write about the theory and philosophy of education, the methodology of educational research, and about education policy. I conduct research on such topics as lifelong learning, citizenship, democratic education, curriculum, and vocational education. I am President-Elect of the Philosophy of Education Society USA and have been awarded an International Francqui Professorship by the Francqui Foundation (for 2011). For more about my work, please go to research projects.

Below is an overview of new publications for 2010. There is new work on complexity theory, deconstruction, the 'what works' discussion, lifelong learning, democratic education and emancipation, plus my book Good education in an age of measurement in which I argue for a reconnection with the question of purpose in education. An update on the presentations I have given so far in 2010 can be found on the presentations page. I have more articles or chapters in press and will update this website when they appear. In the autumn I anticipate the publication of the Swedish translation of Good education in an age of measurement. Also, Paradigm publishers has scheduled paperback editions of Good education in an age of measurement and G.H. Mead's The philosophy of education for the autumn.

NEW PUBLICATIONS 2010

BOOKS

Bingham, C. & Biesta, G.J.J. with Jacques Rancière (2010). Jacques Rancière: Education, truth, emancipation. London/New York: Continuum. [currently available in the UK -- see here; to be released in North America in October -- see here]

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Good education in an age of measurement: Ethics, politics, democracy. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. [click here for more information and for ordering this book with a 15% discount; paperback edition scheduled for October]]

Osberg, D.C. & Biesta, G.J.J. (eds)(2010). Complexity theory and the politics of education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. [click here for more information and for placing an order]

Goodson, I.F., Biesta, G.J.J., Tedder, M. & Adair, N. (2010). Narrative learning. London/New York: Routlege.  [click here for more information and for placing an order]

Ecclestone, K., Biesta, G.J.J. & Hughes, M. (eds)(2010). Transitions and learning through the lifecourse. London/New York: Routledge.  [click here for more information]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

available in pre-print

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press). “This is my truth, tell me yours.” Deconstructive pragmatism as a philosophy for education. Educational Philosophy and Theory.

published

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press). Why ‘what works’ still won’t work. From evidence-based education to value-based education. Studies in Philosophy and Education 29(5), 491-503.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Learner, student, speaker. Why it matters how we call those we teach. Educational Philosophy and Theory 42(4), 540-552.

Biesta, G.J.J., Field, J. & Tedder, M. (2010). A time for learning: Representations of time and the temporal dimensions of learning through the lifecourse. Zeitschift fur Pädagogik 56(3), 317-327.

Lawy, R., Biesta, G.J.J., McDonnell, J., Lawy, H. & Reeves, H. (2010). The art of democracy. British Educational Research Journal 36(3), 351-365.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). On the weakness of education. In D. Kerdeman et al. (eds), Philosophy of Education 2009 (pp. 354-362). Urbana-Champaign, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Rutten, E. A., Biesta, G. J. J., Deković, M., Stams, G. J. J. M., Schuengel, C. & Verweel, P. (2010). Using forum theatre in organised youth soccer to positively influence antisocial and prosocial behaviour: a pilot study. Journal of Moral Education, 39(1), 65 - 78.

Biesta,, G.J.J. (2010). How to exist politically and learn from it: Hannah Arendt and the problem of democratic education. Teachers College Record 112(2), 558-577.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). A new ‘logic’ of emancipation: The methodology of Jacques Ranciere. Educational Theory 60(1), 39-59.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Editorial: Publishing in Studies in Philosophy and Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education 29(1), 1-4.

BOOKCHAPTERS

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). “The most influential theory of the century.” Dewey, democratic education and the limits of pragmatism. In D. Troehler, T. Schlag & F. Osterwalder (eds) Pragmatism and modernities (pp. 197-213). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Biesta, G.J.J. & Osberg, D.C. (2010) Complexity, education, and politics: From the inside out and the outside in. In D.C. Osberg & G.J.J. Biesta (Eds). Complexity theory and the politics of education (pp. 1-3). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Five theses on complexity reduction and its politics. In D.C. Osberg & G.J.J. Biesta (Eds). Complexity theory and the politics of education (pp.5-13). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Pragmatism and the philosophical foundations of mixed methods research. In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research. Second edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Witnessing deconstruction in education. Why quasi-transcendentalism matters. In C. Ruitenberg (ed). What do philosophers of education do? (And how do they do it?) (pp. 73-86). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

This website provides information about my research, publications and teaching. If you are looking for a copy of one of my papers or have any questions about my research, please get in touch. If you are interested in doing a PhD with me, please get in touch as well.

2001 Derrida & Education	2003 Pragmatism and Educational Research	2006 Bortom Lärandet: Demokratisk utbildning för en mänsklig framtid.	2008 George Herbert Mead. Philosophie der Erziehung. Herasugegeben und eingeleitet von Daniel Tröhler und Gert Biesta.