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Product Description: This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire...read more

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9781612050263 | Paradigm Pub, May 30, 2013, cover price $160.00

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9781612050270 | Paradigm Pub, February 27, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk.

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Product Description: Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a Derridian perspective to demonstrate the relevance of his work in contemporary, multicultural societies...read more
By Gert J. J. Biesta (editor)

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9780415684125 | Routledge, December 15, 2011, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies.

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Product Description: This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens...read more

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9789460915116 | Sense Pub, February 14, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship.

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9789460915109 | Sense Pub, February 14, 2011, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship.

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Product Description: The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose...read more

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9781594517907 | Paradigm Pub, January 30, 2010, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education.

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Product Description: Winner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book AwardJacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation demonstrates the importance of Rancière's work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancière's educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics...read more

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9781441190956 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 28, 2010, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Winner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book AwardJacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation demonstrates the importance of Rancière's work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancière's educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics.

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9781441132161 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 28, 2010, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Winner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book AwardJacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation demonstrates the importance of Rancière's work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancière's educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics.

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