NEWS (6 February 2011): Thank you for visiting my website.

So far the following items have been published in 2011:

BOOK

Biesta, G.J.J. (2011). God utbildning i mätningens tidevarv. Stockholm: Liber. click here

JOURNAL ARTICLES (published)

Biesta, G.J.J. & Miedema, S. (2011). What kind of deconstruction for religious education? Religious education 106(1), 105-108. [DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2011.539452]. click here

Biesta, G.J.J. (2011). [Evidence and values in educational research and educational practice.][InChinese] Peking University Education Review 9(1), 123-135.] (ISSN 1671-9468) click here

JOURNAL ARTICLES (electronic pre-print version)

Rutten, A.E., Schuengel, C., Dirks, E., Stams, G.J.J.M., Biesta, G.J.J. & Hoeksema, J. (2011). Predictors of  antisocial and prosocial behavior in an adolescent sports context. Social Development. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00598.x [17 January 2011] click here

Biesta, G.J.J. (2011). The ignorant citizen: Mouffe, Rancière, and the subject of democratic education. Studies in Philosophy and Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11217-011-9220-4 [8 January 2011] click here

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NEWS (28 December 2010): Below you will find information about all publications for 2010 and all publications scheduled for 2011. My 2011 publications include new books on education, democracy and citizenship (Learning Democracy in School and Society), and on the Learning Lives project (Improving Learning through the Lifecourse). In addition a number of translations of my 2010 book Good Education in an Age of Measurement will be published, and some further work on the theory and philosophy of education will be out later in 2011 or early in 2012. My new journal articles and bookchapters cover similar themes: education, democracy and citizenship; lifelong learning; the philosophy and methodology of educational research (including further contributions to the 'what works' discussion; and some new work on the theory and philosophy of education). The paperback edition of Good Education in an Age of Measurement has just appeared and is on its way from the warehouse, so should be available soon for order via amazon and directly from the publishers. I am looking forward to giving invited keynote presentations at the LSIS conference (Learning and Skills Improvement Service; March), the European Future of Teacher Education Conference (Vienna, March), the VELON conference (Dutch Society of Teacher Educators; March), AERA (New Orleans, April) and the EARLI conference (September). As always, if you would like to receive a copy of a paper or chapter, please send me an e-mail. I use twitter for quick updates on publications and presentations.

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. I am 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.

NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR 2011

NEW BOOKS FOR 2011

The following books will be published in 2011

Biesta, G.J.J. (2011). Learning democracy in school and society: Education, lifelong learning and the politics of citizenship. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. (February/March 2011)

Biesta, G.J.J., Field, J., Hodkinson, P.& Macleod, F.J. & Goodson, I.F. (2011). Improving learning through the lifecourse: Learning  lives. London/New York: Routledge. (February 2011)

Biesta, G.J.J. (ed) (2011). Philosophy of education 2010. Urbana-Champaign: Philosophy of Education Society. (Spring 2011)

Biesta, G.J.J. (2011). Good education in an age of measurement [Danish translation]. Århus: Klim publishers. (Spring 2011)

In addition the following titles are on their way, either late 2011 or early 2012

Peters, M.A. & Biesta, G.J.J. (eds)(2011/2012). The Transformation of Philosophy of Education: Alternative futures and future alternatives.  Boulder, Co: Paradigm.

Biesta. G.J.J. (2011/2012). The beautiful risk of education. Boulder, Co: Paradigm Publishers.

There are discussions underway for a Dutch and a Chinese translation of Good education in an age of measurement.

NEW JOURNAL ARTICLES FOR 2011

The following articles have been accepted for publication and are scheduled for 2011:

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Education, weakness, existence, the soul and truth: Five reminders about the basic questions of education. Ars Educandi.

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Disciplines and theory in the academic study of education: On the different constructions of the field of educational studies. Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Philosophy, exposure and children: How to resist the instrumentalisation of philosophy in education. Journal of Philosophy of Education.

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Citizenship education reconsidered: Socialisation, subjectification, and the desire for democracy. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Historiographie

Zhao, K. & Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Lifelong learning between ‘east’ and ‘west’: Confucianism and the reflexive project of the self. Interchange.

Mannion, G., Biesta, G.J.J., Priestley, M. & Ross, H. (in press/2011). The global dimension in education and education for global citizenship: Genealogy and critique. Globalisation, societies, education.

Biesta, G.J.J. & Cowell, G. (in press/2011). How is community done? Understanding civic learning through psychogeographic mapping. International Journal of Lifelong Education.

NEW BOOKCHAPTERS FOR 2011

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). On the idea of educational theory. In In B.J. Irby, G. Brown & R. Lara-Alecio (eds). Handbook of educational theories. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Biesta, G. J.J. (in press/2011). Welches Wissen ist am meisten wert? Zur Veränderung des öffentlichen Status von Wissenschaft und Wissen im Feld der Erziehung. In: A. Schäfer & C. Thompson (eds), Wissen. Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag.

Biesta, G.J.J. (in press/2011). Evidence based practice in education: Between science and democracy. In A. Reid, P. Hart, M. Peters & C. Russell (eds). Companion to Research in Education. Dordrecht: Springer.

There are more chapters in the pipeline, for which I am awaiting confirmation of publication details.

A FULL OVERVIEW OF MY 2010 PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS [5]

Bingham, C. & Biesta, G.J.J. with Jacques Rancière (2010). Jacques Rancière: Education, truth, emancipation. London/New York: Continuum. [UK: see here; North America: 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]

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 [12]

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). “This is my truth, tell me yours.” Deconstructive pragmatism as a philosophy for education. Educational Philosophy and Theory 42(7), 710-727.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). An alternative future for European educational research. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Historiographie 16(1), 105-107.

Osberg, D.C. & Biesta, G. (2010). The end/s of education. Complexity and the conundrum of the inclusive educational curriculum. International Journal of Inclusive Education 14(6), 593-607.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). 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 [15]

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Naar een pedagogiek van de toekomst: ‘In de wereld komen’ en ‘uniciteit’. In Korczak jaarboek 2010. Gorinchem: Narratio.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Encontrando a Foucault en el aprendizaje. In A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds), Foucault y el aprendizaje permanente. Gobernando el sujeto (pp. 289-304). Xàtiva: Ediciones del CREC.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Trobant Foucault en l’aprenentatge permanent. In A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds), Foucault i l’aprenentatge permanent: Governent el subjecte (pp. 182-296). Xàtiva: Denes Editorial.

Tedder, M. & Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Adult learning lives and biographies. In K. Safford, M. Stacey & R. Hancock (Eds), Small-scale research in the primary classroom: A reader for learning and professional development (pp. 24-30). London/New York: Routledge.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). D is for democracy: Critical education between inclusion and interruption. In I. Gur Ze’ev (ed), The possibility/impossibiloity of a new critical language in education (pp 293-304). Rotterdam: Sense.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Evidenz und Werte in Erziehung und Bildung.  Drei weitere Defizite evidenzbasierter Praxis. In H.-U. Otto, a. Polutta & H. Ziegler (Hrsg.) What Works - Welches Wissen braucht die Soziale Arbeit? (pp.99-115). Opladen: Barbara Burdich.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Education after the death of the subject: Levinas and the pedagogy of interruption. In Z. Leonardo (ed), The handbook of cultural politics and education (pp.289-300). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Valuing what we measure or measuring what we value? On the need to engage with the question of purpose in educational evaluation, assessment and measurement. In W. Böttcher, J.N. Dicke & N. Hogrebe (Hrsg.), Evaluation, Bildung und Gesellschaft: Steuerungsinstrumente zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (pp. 35-46). Munster: Waxmann.

Priestley, M., Biesta, G.J.J., Mannion, G. & Ross, H. (2010). Education in a global space: The framing of ‘education for citizenship.’ In T.L.K. Wiseley, I.M. Barr, A. Britton & B. King (eds), Education in a global space. Research and practice in initial teacher education (pp. 27-36). Edinburgh: IDEAS.

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.

Ecclestone, K., Biesta, G.J.J. & Hughes, M. (2010). Transitions in the lifecourse: the role of identity, agency and structure. In K. Ecclestone, G.J.J. Biesta & M. Hughes (eds). Transitions and learning through the lifecourse (pp. 1-15). London: Routledge.

BOOKREVIEW [1]

Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Review of Andrew Stables, Childhood and the Philosophy of Education: An Anti-Aristotelian Perspective. Continuum Studies in Education 2008. Studies in Philosophy and Education 29(6), 579-585.

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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.