Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professorial Fellow for Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK; NIVOZ Professor for Education at the University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands; and Visiting Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He is Associate Editor of Educational Theory and Co-Editor of British Educational Research Journal. He is the author of The Beautiful Risk of Education (2014), The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017), Obstinate Education (2019), and co-author of Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education (2015) and Teacher Agency (2015).

Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... a welcome and educational addition to the literature about educational research and one that is worthy of respect by research students and established academics alike.

• ForewordPrologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism2. Making Education Better3. ‘What Works’ is Not Enough4. The Practice of Education5. Configurations of Educational Research6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy7. Knowledge Reconsidered8. The Political Economy of Academic PublishingEpilogue: Too Much Research?ReferencesAcknowledgementsAbout the Author

Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professorial Fellow for Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK; NIVOZ Professor for Education at the University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands; and Visiting Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He is Associate Editor of Educational Theory and Co-Editor of British Educational Research Journal. He is the author of The Beautiful Risk of Education (2014), The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017), Obstinate Education (2019), and co-author of Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education (2015) and Teacher Agency (2015).

Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... a welcome and educational addition to the literature about educational research and one that is worthy of respect by research students and established academics alike.

• ForewordPrologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism2. Making Education Better3. ‘What Works’ is Not Enough4. The Practice of Education5. Configurations of Educational Research6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy7. Knowledge Reconsidered8. The Political Economy of Academic PublishingEpilogue: Too Much Research?ReferencesAcknowledgementsAbout the Author

Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professorial Fellow for Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK; NIVOZ Professor for Education at the University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands; and Visiting Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He is Associate Editor of Educational Theory and Co-Editor of British Educational Research Journal. He is the author of The Beautiful Risk of Education (2014), The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017), Obstinate Education (2019), and co-author of Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education (2015) and Teacher Agency (2015).

Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... a welcome and educational addition to the literature about educational research and one that is worthy of respect by research students and established academics alike.

• ForewordPrologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism2. Making Education Better3. ‘What Works’ is Not Enough4. The Practice of Education5. Configurations of Educational Research6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy7. Knowledge Reconsidered8. The Political Economy of Academic PublishingEpilogue: Too Much Research?ReferencesAcknowledgementsAbout the Author