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
