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With theoretical beauty and practical elegance, Gert Biesta continues to regale us with an approach to education which, while sustaining its immanence and autonomy, remains open to new possibilities and innovative spaces. He does this by putting a spot-light on education's existential(ist) questions; questions that matter for what those who live through education, and will continue to take with them throughout their life. Indeed, what is taken is not a product but an art and ability to sustain one's own being in the world; indeed, a way of becoming the world itself. In this book Biesta completes a wider project where, without unnecessarily antagonizing the educational establishment, he robustly critiques the paradigmatic status quo by which education has become paralyzed between the four angles of conservative, liberal, progressive and critical educationalism. Biesta's originality is found in how he chooses to stay away from this impasse. Instead, he offers new horizons over which we are empowered to do education associatively and convivially. John Baldacchino, Professor, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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