
World-Centred Education - A Conversation with Prof. Gert Biesta
Future Learning Design Podcast
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What Is the Purpose of Education?
I'd love to get onto that but obviously we're talking about the purpose that education gets put to and maybe it's slightly simplistic. The qualification element is preparing them for the future. The socialization element is inheriting the past or passing on you know a conversation between generations Passing on things alive that we value. And then there is this question of subjectification. What makes sense to go with and what makes sense to resist. That I think is really about you being in the presentYou sort of exist there and saying okay I am equipped I can do a lot of things I have a lot of understanding. I have a sense of orientation and then there is always the question so what am I
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