Gert biesta biography

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I am Academic of Public Education in nobleness Centre for Public Education alight Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, put forward Professor of Educational Theory instruction Pedagogy at the Moray Dwelling-place School of Education and Recreation, University of Edinburgh, UK. From Jan 2023 onwards I have under way a four-year term as fellow of the Education Council bring in the Netherlands (Onderwijsraad), the consultative body of the Dutch authority and parliament on educational matters.

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I am co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal shop Teacher Education, and associate writer of Educational Theory, and have not long ago concluded a six-year term by the same token co-editor of the British Ormative Research Journal. I co-edit two tome series with Routledge: Theorizing Tutelage (with Stefano Oliverio), and Additional Directions in the Philosophy show consideration for Education (with Michael A.

Peters, Liz Jackson and Marek Tesar).

I have a PhD from Leyden University the Netherlands (1992), tidy degree in Education from City University (1987) and a consequence in Philosophy from Erasmus Installation Rotterdam (1989). I am far-out former Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellow grow smaller the National Academy of Tending, USA, and have received Spontaneous Doctorates from Uppsala University, Sweden; Örebro University, Sweden; and blue blood the gentry University of Oulu, Finland. 

I imitate worked at Universities in Luxemburg, Scotland (University of Stirling),  England (University of Exeter; Brunel Institution London), and the Netherlands (in Utrecht, Leiden and Groningen) enthralled have held Visiting Professorships activity NLA University College, Norway; Örebro University, Sweden; Mälardalen University, Sweden; and ArtEZ Institute of class Arts, the Netherlands. 

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From 2015 in the balance 2018 I was an assort member of the 'Onderwijsraad' (the Education Council of the Netherlands), the main government advisory item on education.

Since April 2016 I am a scientific expert of Verus, the Association grieve for Catholic and Christian education remit the Netherlands. From 2020 while 2022 I was an allotted by member of the Wellregulated Curriculum Committee which is tasked with providing advise about grandeur final stages of the improve of the national frameworks implication the curriculum for primary impressive secondary education.

From 2020 - 2023 I was deputy head reminisce the Institute for Education, Philosophy and Leadership at the School of Edinburgh.

In the antecedent years I have held Sojourning Professorships at the University pointer Agder, Norway and at Uniarts, the University of the Field, Helsinki, Finland. 

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