Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Educational Theory
DOI: 10.1111/edth.12411
Author: Gert Biesta
Institution: National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W3036659752