Derrida & Education

Gert Biesta, Denise Egéa-Kuehne

Routledge, 2001 - Education - 251 pages

Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a Derridian perspective to demonstrate the relevance of his work in contemporary, multicultural societies.

About the author

Gert Biesta (www.gertbiesta.com) is Professor of Educational Theory and Policy at the University of Luxembourg, former president of the Philosophy of Education Society USA, and editor-in-chief of the journal Studies in Philosophy and Education. He has published widely on the theory and philosophy of education. With Paradigm Publishers he published "Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future" (2006) winner of the 2008 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award and "Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy" (2010). He also co-edited George Herbert Mead's "The Philosophy of Education" (2008).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Derrida & Education; Volume 10 of Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education
• Editors: Gert Biesta, Denise Egéa-Kuehne
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2001
• ISBN: 0415218136, 9780415218139
• Length: 251 pages
• Subjects: Education / Multicultural Education; Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction