Good Education in an Age of Measurement

Gert J.J. Biesta is Professor of Professor of Educational Theory and Policy at the University of Luxembourg, and Editor of Studies in Philosophy and Education. He is the author of Beyond Learning and co-editor of The Philosophy of Education.

“In his latest book Gert Biesta demonstrates, yet again, why he is one of our era’s most thoughtful educational scholars and critics.” —David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Chapter 1 Prologue On the Question of Purpose in Education; Chapter 1a What Is Education For?; Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Education between Science and Democracy; Chapter 3 Education between Accountability and Responsibility; Chapter 4 A Pedagogy of Interruption; Chapter 5 Democracy and Education after Dewey; Chapter 6 Education, Democracy and the Question of Inclusion; Chapter 7 Epilogue The End(s) of Learning;