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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
91
Citations
43685
World Ranking
173
National Ranking
1

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Overview

Gert Biesta is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their primary research area lies within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Education and related interdisciplinary domains such as Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work frequently appears in the following publication venues:

  • Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
  • Educational Theory
  • Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • British Educational Research Journal
  • Policy Futures in Education

Recent papers by Gert Biesta include:

  • Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited, 2020, Educational Theory
  • Beyond the Medical Model: Thinking Differently about Medical Education and Medical Education Research, 2020, Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Frequent co-authors contributing to research alongside Biesta comprise:

  • Keita Takayama
  • Margaret Kettle
  • Stephen Heimans
  • David Aldridge
  • Nicholas Burbules Editor

The scientist has published books with multiple publishers. These include:

  • NAFOL Yearbook 2012 (Fagbokforlaget eBooks, 2022)
  • Rehearsing for teaching (Fagbokforlaget eBooks, 2025)
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
  • On Learning, Volume 2 (UCL Press, 2023)

The key topics addressed in Biesta's research cover:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
  • Critical and Liberation Pedagogy
  • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
  • Critical Theory and Philosophy

Best Publications

  • WHY “WHAT WORKS” WON’T WORK: EVIDENCE‐BASED PRACTICE AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

    G J J Biesta

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    Gert J. J. Biesta

  • Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future

    Gert J. J. Biesta

  • Good education in an age of measurement: on the need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education

    G J J Biesta

  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    Gert J. J. Biesta

  • The Role of Beliefs in Teacher Agency.

    Gert Biesta;Mark Priestley;Sarah Robinson

  • Agency and learning in the lifecourse: Towards an ecological perspective

    G J J Biesta;Michael Tedder

  • Pragmatism and educational research

    Gert J J Biesta;Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Why 'What Works' Still Won't Work: From Evidence-Based Education to Value-Based Education

    Gert J. J. Biesta

  • What is Education For? On Good Education, Teacher Judgement, and Educational Professionalism

    Gert Biesta

  • Pragmatism and the philosophical foundations of mixed methods research.

    Gert Biesta

  • The beautiful risk of education

    Gert Biesta

  • Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach

    Gert J. J. Biesta;Sarah Robinson;Mark Priestley

  • Teacher Agency : What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

    Mark Priestley;Gert Biesta;Sarah Robinson

  • Understanding Learning Culturally: Overcoming the Dualism Between Social and Individual Views of Learning

    Phil Hodkinson;G J J Biesta;David James

  • Education, Accountability, and the Ethical Demand: Can the Democratic Potential of Accountability Be Regained?

    Gert J.J. Biesta

  • Citizenship-as-Practice: The Educational Implications of an Inclusive and Relational Understanding of Citizenship

    Robert Lawy;Gert Biesta

  • Giving Teaching Back to Education: Responding to the Disappearance of the Teacher

    Gert J.J. Biesta

  • From teaching citizenship to learning democracy: overcoming individualism in research, policy and practice

    Gert Biesta;Robert Lawy

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

    Gert Biesta

  • Para além da aprendizagem: Educação democrática para um futuro humano.

    Gert Biesta

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Priestley
Mark Priestley University of Stirling
Carlo Schuengel
Carlo Schuengel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Geert Jan J. M. Stams
Geert Jan J. M. Stams University of Amsterdam
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards University of Stirling
Phil Hodkinson
Phil Hodkinson University of Leeds
Maja Deković
Maja Deković Utrecht University
Ivor Goodson
Ivor Goodson University of Brighton
Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George H. Mead
George H. Mead University of Chicago

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