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About this book
This volume gives educational theorists the chance to let rip and say what they really want to say. In doing so it sends a blast of fresh air through the dusty halls of academe. The vast majority of the literature in education theory and philosophy follows the conventions of academic writing, and rightly so. Yet its formal, abstract and objective style, which focuses on the careful presentation of theoretical and philosophical arguments, doesn’t always give us insights into what motivates and drives the authors—while for academic neophytes it can be dense and arcane.
Here, those same theorists and philosophers have been given the chance to expound at length on the topics that most exercise them. What concerns them, what gets them up in the morning, and what really matters most to them? Readers will discover what happens when these thinkers are explicitly invited to go beyond academic conventions and experiment with form, style and content. Featuring collected essays from leading educationalists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, Canada, Israel Germany, Belgium and the UK, these essays provide vital insights into their work as well as being a compelling introduction to contemporary attempts to make sense of education through theory and philosophy. All these authors have made key contributions to the field, and their unique ‘manifestos’ make a fascinating read for any student or practitioner in education.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Sense of Education
Book Subtitle: Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words
Editors: Gert J.J. Biesta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4017-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4016-7Published: 07 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4017-4Published: 05 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 116
Additional Information: Prev. published in: Studies in Philosophy and Education, volume 30 issue 5, Fifty years of Studies in Philosophy and Education: A Special Anniversary Issue