Programme 356, Gert Biesta, part 1 (6-3-19)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

Theme tune by David Vesey

On this week's programme I speak to Gert Biesta who is Professor of Public Education at Maynooth University. Among the topics we discuss on the programme are:

• Why he took up a position in Ireland


• The work of the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University


• How he’ll get to know the Irish education system


• How teacher education in Ireland differs from teacher education in England


• The emergence of a competitive mindset in education across countries


• What good education is in an age of measurement


• Balancing three purposes of education


• The place of equity, diversity and social justice in education


• Implications of the disappearance of teaching and the rise of learning over the last 25 years


• The gift of teaching