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Review of Gert J.J. Biesta, The Beautiful Risk of Education

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  1. I believe that risk can never be eliminated in the human and relational practice of teaching, but I see prescriptive pedagogical policies as aiming toward this dubious goal.

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  1. Bowdoin College, 7400 College Station, Brunswick, ME, 04011, USA

    Doris A. Santoro

  2. Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada

    Samuel D. Rocha

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Santoro, D.A., Rocha, S.D. Review of Gert J.J. Biesta, The Beautiful Risk of Education . Stud Philos Educ 34, 413–418 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-015-9468-1

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