Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited

In previous publications, Gert Biesta has suggested that education should be oriented toward three domains of purpose that he calls qualification, socialization, and subjectification. Many educators, policymakers, and scholars have found this suggestion helpful. Nonetheless, the discussion about the...

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Published in:Educational theory Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 89 - 104
Main Author: Biesta, Gert
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.02.2020
Wiley-Blackwell
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:
Biesta, Gert
Children
Correlation
Dietrich Benner
Education
Educational Philosophy
Educational Theories
Educational theory
Freedom
Freedoms
identity
Intervention
Personal Autonomy
Policy making
qualification
Qualifications
Socialization
subjectification
Teachers
ISSN:0013-2004, 1741-5446
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Summary:In previous publications, Gert Biesta has suggested that education should be oriented toward three domains of purpose that he calls qualification, socialization, and subjectification. Many educators, policymakers, and scholars have found this suggestion helpful. Nonetheless, the discussion about the exact nature of each domain and about their relationships to each other has been ongoing, particularly with regard to the domain of subjectification. In this article, Biesta revisits the three domains and tries to provide further clarification with regard to the idea of subjectification. He highlights that subjectification has to do with the existence of the child or student as subject of her or his own life, not as object of educational interventions. Subjectification thus has to do with the question of freedom. Biesta explains that this is not the freedom to do what one wants to do, but the freedom to act in and with the world in a “grown‐up” way.
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ISSN:0013-2004
1741-5446
DOI:10.1111/edth.12411