From Edvin – August 2020: The risk of education
Our task as university educators is to create circumstances that will allow our students, – gifted, motivated and trusting – to learn. Not just memorize, but learn to think outside of the box and create solutions to as yet unknown problems. How do we do that? There is no cure-all formula. Good educators are curious: Who are the students, what do they know, how can we challenge them, just enough? And as we struggle with these questions, we change. Ideas emerge, we learn, we manage. And it’s never perfect, and endlessly challenging. Philosopher of pedagogy Gert Biesta captures the fate Continue reading From Edvin – August 2020: The risk of education