Professor Gert Biesta

Deputy Head of Institute for Education, Teaching & Leadership (IETL) / Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy

Moray House School of Education and Sport, IETL
University of Edinburgh

Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6032
Email: gert.biesta@ed.ac.uk

Street: Moray House School of Education and Sport
City: University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
Post code: EH8 8AQ

Biography

Background

Gert Biesta is Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy (part-time) and Deputy Head of the Institute of Education, Teaching and Leadership. He joined the Moray House School of Education and Sport in August 2019. He is also Professor of Public Education (part-time) at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research focuses on the theory of education and the theory and philosophy of educational and social research, with a keen interest in national and global education policy, curriculum, teaching and teacher education, democracy and citizenship education, religious education and education and the arts. He has published widely on these topics in articles, chapters and books. So far his work has appeared in 20 different languages. From 2015 - 2018 he was an associate member of the Educational Council of the Netherlands, the advisory body of the Dutch government and parliament. Since September 2020 he is a member of the Scientific Curriculum Committee in the Netherlands, which is tasked with advising the Secretary of State for Education about the redevelopment of the curriculum for primary and secondary schools. He is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory.

Publications

Putting the world in the centre: A different future for Scotland’s education (21 pages) 9 May 2023 In: Scottish Educational Review, pp. 1-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/27730840-20231001
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
ChatGPT, subjectification, and the purposes and politics of teacher education and its scholarship (8 pages) 25 Apr 2023 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 51, pp. 105-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2023.2189368
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Navigating the complex space of journal editing: Exploring the tensions between the intellectual and commercial dimensions of academic publishing (4 pages) Feb 2023 In: British Educational Research Journal, vol. 49, pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3852
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)
Becoming contemporaneous: Intercultural communication pedagogy beyond culture and without ethics (15 pages) 2023 In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, pp. 237-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2164341
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
School-as-institution or school-as-instrument?: How to overcome instrumentalism without giving up on democracy (13 pages) 28 Nov 2022 In: Educational Theory, vol. 72, pp. 319-331
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12533
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Taking “Asia Pacific” seriously: Some uncomfortable questions about editing APJTE (13 pages) 27 Oct 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, pp. 425-437
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2138039
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Taking teacher educators, teachers, and students seriously in research: A statement from the editors of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education about the revised aims and scope of the journal (2 pages) 22 Sep 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2125226
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Who educates the teacher educator? On research, practice, and politics (3 pages) 22 Sep 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, pp. 325-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2104467
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
The world is not enough: Religious education beyond worldview perspectivism (19 pages) 21 Sep 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003264439-6
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
Thinking about what has been ‘missing’ in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (APJTE) and perhaps the field more generally (4 pages) 20 Jul 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, pp. 229-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2079174
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
El problema de la teoría de la educación (16 pages) Jun 2022 In: Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, vol. 34, pp. 33-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/TERI.27157
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published)
Calls to action for teacher education research and practice: Voices from the field (3 pages) 4 May 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, pp. 115-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2048464
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of APJTE: A reflection on the past, present and future (7 pages) 16 Mar 2022 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, pp. 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2022854
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education 13 Mar 2022 In: Journal of Educational Administration and History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2022.2052029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
The school is not a learning environment: How language matters for the practical study of educational practices 12 Mar 2022 In: Studies in Continuing Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2022.2046556
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Editorial: A case for diversity in educational research and educational practice (4 pages) 23 Feb 2022 In: British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3777
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print)
Why the form of teaching matters: Defending the integrity of education and of the work of teachers beyond agendas and good intentions (21 pages) 1 Jan 2022 In: Revista de Educacion, vol. 2022, pp. 13-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2022-395-519
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The contested relationships between educational research, theory and practice: Introduction to a special section (4 pages) 29 Dec 2021 In: British Educational Research Journal, vol. 47, pp. 1447-1450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3772
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)
Teacher education policy: Part of the solution or part of the problem? (4 pages) 25 Nov 2021 In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 49, pp. 467-470
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2021.1992926
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)
Reclaiming a future that has not yet been: The Faure report, UNESCO’s humanism and the need for the emancipation of education (18 pages) 12 Oct 2021 In: International Review of Education â€“ Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-021-09921-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)

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