Talking about education: exploring the significance of teachers’ talk for teacher agency     

Gert Biesta  Mark Priestley  Sarah Robinson 《课程研究杂志》2017,49(1):38-54

Abstract

The interest in teachers’ discourses and vocabularies has for a long time been studied under the rubric of knowledge, most notably teachers’ professional knowledge. This interest can be traced back to Shulman’s distinction between different kinds of teacher knowledge and Schwab’s interest in the role of practical reasoning and judgement in teaching. Within the research, a distinction can be found between a more narrow approach that focuses on teachers’ propositional or theoretical knowledge and a more encompassing approach in which teachers’ knowledge is not only the knowledge for teachers generated elsewhere, but also the knowledge of teachers. This is the ‘stock of knowledge’ gained from a range of sources and experiences, including teachers’ ongoing engagement with the practice of teaching itself. In this paper, we focus on the role of teachers’ talk in their achievement of agency. We explore how, in what way and to what extent such talk helps or hinders teachers in exerting control over and giving direction to their everyday practices, bearing in mind that such practices are not just the outcome of teachers’ judgements and actions, but are also shaped by the structures and cultures within which teachers work.  相似文献   

On how n and i turned out to become indices in mathematical sequences and formulae     

Gert Schubring 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2011,77(2-3):331-350

The evolution of indexing sequences and series has been little studied so far, although this topic presents difficulties for students. This symbolisation signified, however, an important means for operating more generally with finite and infinite series. This paper investigates the first steps during the eighteenth century and then the different processes in France and in Germany. In France, it was Lacroix with his textbooks from the end of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth century who paved the way, while dealing with difference series, for what would be established by Cauchy as a general practice with indexed sequences. In Germany, a pivotal role was played by the combinatorial school since the 1780s in establishing sophisticated indexing notations; the achievements by Dirksen in elaborating ??higher-order?? indexing notations prove to be decisive.  相似文献   

Conceptions for relating the evolution of mathematical concepts to mathematics learning—epistemology, history, and semiotics interacting
To the memory of Carl Menger (1902–1985)     

Gert Schubring 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2011,77(1):79-104

There is an over-arching consensus that the use of the history of mathematics should decidedly improve the quality of mathematics teaching. Mathematicians and mathematics educators show here a rare unanimity. One deplores, however, and in a likewise general manner, the scarcity of positive examples of such a use. This paper analyses whether there are shortcomings in the—implicit or explicit—conceptual bases, which might cause the expectations not to be fulfilled. A largely common denominator of various approaches is some connection with the term “genetic.” The author discusses such conceptions from the point of view of a historian of mathematics who is keen to contribute to progress in mathematics education. For this aim, he explores methodological aspects of research into the history of mathematics, based on—as one of the reviewers appreciated—his “life long research.”  相似文献   

Lifelong Learning Between “East” and “West”: Confucianism and the Reflexive Project of the Self     

Kang Zhao  Gert J. J. Biesta 《Interchange》2011,42(1):1-20

Current theory, policy, and practice of lifelong learning are strongly influenced by ideas about the transformations that are taking place in contemporary societies. One influential set of ideas emphasizes that because of the rapid changes that are taking place in the (late-) modern world and because of the erosion of traditions, there is a constant need for individuals not only to learn new skills and knowledge in order to be able to adjust themselves to the changes, but also to reflexively (re)construct one’s self. Anthony Giddens has referred to this as the “reflexive project of the self.” It thus becomes a lifelong learning task. In this paper we raise some critical questions about Giddens’s views and their implications for lifelong learning. On the one hand we show, using ideas from Charles Taylor, that the construction of the self does not necessarily have to be understood in the reflexive and individualistic terms suggested by Giddens. With Taylor we argue for the importance of the social, moral, and intersubjective dimensions of the construction of the self. Against this background we then discuss ideas from Confucianism that also highlight the social, moral, and intersubjective dimensions of understanding the self. The latter view is not simply a theoretical option but actually continues to influence the ways in which a large part of the world population views their lives and their selves. Both for theoretical and practical reasons we therefore suggest that there is a need to take a broader outlook on what the personal dimensions of lifelong learning in contemporary society might look like.  相似文献   

REDEFINING THE SUBJECT, REDEFINING THE SOCIAL, RECONSIDERING EDUCATION: GEORGE HERBERT MEAD'S COURSE ON PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO     

Gert J.J. Biesta 《Educational theory》1999,49(4):475-492

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HOW IS EDUCATION POSSIBLE? PRAGMATISM, COMMUNICATION AND THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF EDUCATION   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Raf  Vanderstraeten  Gert  Biesta 《British Journal of Educational Studies》2006,54(2):160-174

ABSTRACT:  Education cannot mean that the young are the product of the activities of their teachers. At the same time, we do not speak of education if students would simply learn something irrespective of the ac­tivities of their teachers. In this paper we focus on the question: How is education possible? Our aim is to contribute to a social theory of education, a theory that does not reduce our understanding of educational processes and practices to underlying 'constituting elements' but rather tries to understand the social nature of education as a reality sui generis.  相似文献   

Writing education around the globe: introduction and call for a new global analysis     

Steve Graham  Gert Rijlaarsdam 《Reading and writing》2016,29(5):781-792

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From teaching citizenship to learning democracy: overcoming individualism in research,policy and practice   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

Gert Biesta 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2006,36(1):63-79

In this article we argue for a shift in educational research, policy and practice away from teaching citizenship to an understanding of the ways young people learn democracy. In the first part of the article we identify the ways in which the discussion about citizenship in Britain has developed since the Second World War and show how a comprehensive understanding of citizenship, which has underpinned much recent thinking about citizenship education, has been replaced by a more overtly individualistic approach. In the second part of the article we delineate the key problems of this individualistic approach and make a case for an approach to citizenship education that takes as its point of departure the actual learning that occurs in the real lives of young people. In the concluding section, we outline the implications of our view for research, policy and practice.  相似文献   

为着公共利益的教育哲学:五个挑战与一个议程     

格特·比斯塔  赵康 《教育学报》2011,7(4)

1917年,杜威在他的一篇名为《哲学复兴的需要》的文章中写道:“当哲学不再是处理哲学家们的问题的手段时,而是成为由哲学家们发展出来的处理人类问题的方法时,哲学就得以复兴了.”在这篇论文中,我论述教育哲学也是如此,因为教育哲学应当聚焦在教育问题上,而不是哲学问题上.当然,教育哲学应当以哲学专长来面对教育问题.这不仅是一个学术任务,而且是一个政治任务,特别是在一个教育作为公共利益的观念遭遇压力的时代,在一个教育日益被看成个人利益和经济利益的时代,尤为如此.我在文中阐述了在我看来教育哲学家能有所贡献的五个领域.它们不仅为未来的教育哲学工作提供了一个议程,而且为转向存在主义的教育哲学建构了一个论述.这个转向包括在所有教育中都含有我所认为的“美丽风险”.  相似文献   

Education,Accountability, and the Ethical Demand: Can the Democratic Potential of Accountability Be Regained?   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

Gert J.J. Biesta 《Educational theory》2004,54(3):233-250

This paper analyzes the impact of the idea of accountability on education. It considers the kind of relationships that are promoted or produced by the culture of accountability, both in order to understand what kind of relationships are made possible and to understand what kind of relationships are made difficult, or even impossible, as a result of the accountability regime. The paper explores how the managerial uses of the idea of accountability have become pervasive in contemporary education and how this has changed relationships among students, parents, teachers, and the state. Ultimately, accountability erodes relationships of responsibility. Zygmunt Bauman's "postmodern ethics" is used to gain a detailed understanding of why it has become so much more difficult to develop relationships of responsibility under the accountability regime. Bauman's proposal that we should take responsibility for our responsibility also suggests a starting point from which the democratic potential of accountability might be regained.  相似文献