Gert Biesta

31.9k citations
497 papers · 20.5k · 14 hit papers · h-index 67

Impact in

    • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Education top 0.01%
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
    • Global Education and Multiculturalism
    • Education and Critical Thinking Development
    • Religious Education and Schools

Papers in

    • Global Education and Multiculturalism 56
    • Religious Education and Schools 54
    • Education and Critical Thinking Development 45
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies 33
    • Critical and Liberation Pedagogy 30
    • Global Educational Policies and Reforms 100

Gert Biesta

434 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Gert Biesta's Hit Papers

World-Centred Education 2021 · 131 citations
1310+6+13Years since publication2505007501000

Peers

Gert Biesta
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  • Human Factors and Ergonomics 1.7k
  • Education 13.6k
  • Political Science and International Relations 4.8k
  • Sociology and Political Science 6.7k
  • Philosophy 1.7k
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All Works

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WHY “WHAT WORKS” WON’T WORK: EVIDENCE‐BASED PRACTICE AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
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20071113
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Good education in an age of measurement: on the need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education
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20081073
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Good Education in an Age of Measurement: Ethics, Politics, Democracy
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2010832
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The role of beliefs in teacher agency
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2015799
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Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future
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2006794
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Agency and learning in the lifecourse: Towards an ecological perspective
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2007744
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Teacher Agency
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2015537
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Why ‘What Works’ Still Won’t Work: From Evidence-Based Education to Value-Based Education
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2010529
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What is Education For? On Good Education, Teacher Judgement, and Educational Professionalism
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2015503
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Beautiful Risk of Education
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2015501
11 2008314
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Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited
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2020284
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Giving Teaching Back to Education: Responding to the Disappearance of the Teacher
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2013262
14 2004258
15 2006254
16 2010248
17 2004228
18 2006224
19 2015223
20 2011216

About Gert Biesta

Gert Biesta is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Human Factors and Ergonomics, having authored 497 papers that have together received 20.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Global Educational Policies and Reforms (100 papers), Global Education and Multiculturalism (56 papers), Religious Education and Schools (54 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (49 papers), Education and Critical Thinking Development (45 papers), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (39 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (33 papers) and Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (30 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Human Factors and Ergonomics (1.7k citations), Education (13.6k citations), Political Science and International Relations (4.8k citations), Sociology and Political Science (6.7k citations) and Philosophy (1.7k citations). Gert Biesta has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Mark Priestley, Sarah Robinson, Michael Tedder, Robert Lawy, Deborah Osberg, David James, Phil Hodkinson, S. Miedema, Geert Jan J. M. Stams and Narcie Kelly. Their work appears in journals such as Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Educational Theory and European Educational Research Journal.

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