refereed publications
(journal articles)
below is a relative comprehensive overview of recent journal publications
2026
274 Biesta, G. & Hannam, P. (in press). The common ground of religion and education. An interview with Gert Biesta by Patricia Hannam. Journal of Religious Education.
273 Biesta, G. (in press). What kind of research for what kind of practice? Lessons for the OECD and others. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.
272 Biesta, G. (2026). Wereldgericht onderwijs. Pedagogiek 46(2), 244-264.
271 Biesta, G. (2026). A partir do ângulo do professor. Revista Espaço do Currículo, 19(2), p. e78942, 2026. DOI: 10.15687/rec.v19i2.78942. https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rec/article/view/78942.
270 Biesta, G. (2026). Escape from Alcatraz? A response to Stefan Wittig’s Who can turn the arrow? Ethics and Education 21(3), 580-597. DOI 10.1080/17449642.2026.2681562 Published on-line 2 June 2026: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2026.2681562
269 Biesta, G. (2026). Reconnecting school and society. A defence of the school as public institution. Philosophical Inquiry in Education 33(1), 4-14.
268 Biesta, G., & Fernández Gómez, S. (2025). El potencial de las artes en la educación contemporánea. Artes La Revista, 24(31), 150–162. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.artes.361155
267 Selkrig, M. & Biesta, G. (2026). The teacher as a work of art. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2026.2615662
https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2026.2615662
266 Biesta, G., Takayama, K., Kettle, M., & Heimans, S. (2026). Is teacher efficacy a myth? Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 54(2), 95–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2026.2635804
265 Teixeira, Cauê Ferreira, Mendonça, Samuel & Biesta, Gert (2026). Against the learnification of teaching: an analysis of policies for teacher education and the teaching profession in Brazil and Scotland. Revista Brasileira de Educação 31, e310019. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-24782026310019
264 Biesta, G. & Saevi, T. (2026). Do we still need to be concerned about the disappearance of the teacher? Phenomenology and Practice 21(1), 7-15.
263 Biesta, G. (2026). Turning the arrow: Education after the age of the world-view. Asia-Pacific Journal of Education 46(2), 378-388. Published online 1 April 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2025.2477587
262 Biesta, G. (2026). "Has Research on ‘What Works’ in Education Been Looking at the Wrong Interventions? Revisiting ‘Why “What Works” Won’t Work’" Educational Theory 76(1): 16-24.. DOI:10.1111/edth.70063
2025
261 Davids, N., Barnett, R., Metz, T., Zalloua, Z., Maistry, S., Yancy, G., Orchard, J., Papastephanou, M., Maldonado-Torres, N., Robins, S., Conroy, J., Forster, D.J., Le Grange, L., Biesta, G. & Gordon, M. (2025). Gaza: We need to talk! Educational Philosophy and Theory, 57(11), 964–989. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2531932
260 格特·比斯塔,赵康 (2025)测量时代和人工智能时代的教育——基于主体化教育展开的对话. 教育研究, 第46卷(总第544期), 第5期, 第55页-第67页.
Biesta,G. & Zhao,K.(2025) Education in the Age of Measurement and Artificial Intelligence--A Dialogue Based on Subject-Based Education.Educational Research, Vol.46, Number 5, pp.55-67.
259 Biesta, G. (2025/online). The future of education in the impulse society: Why schools and teachers matter. Prospects. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-025-09723-1
258 Bertelsen, B., Hillesund, O. K., Bøe, T. D., Lidbom, P. A., Sundet, R., & Biesta, G. (2023). The World Asks Something from Us: An Interview With Gert Biesta About Encountering Subjects in Education and Mental Health Work. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 38(2), 317–327. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2291648
257 Biesta, G. (2023). Taking the angle of the teacher: The 2024 GTC Scotland lecture. Scottish Educational Review 55 (1—2), 175–191. [published 21 March 2025]
256 Biesta, G. (2025). No education without an educator (Chinese).
格特·比斯塔. 没有教育者就没有教育[J].浙大教育学刊.2025,(3), 1-10
2024
255 Biesta, G. (2024). From the point where I stand to the place where I can be found: The critique of perspectival reason as philosophy for education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 57(9), 821–835. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2435336
254 Biesta, G. (2024). Education towards self-uncertainty. Or why there has to be weakness. Published in Danish as Glem karakterdannelse – den gode uddannelse har blik forsvaghedens nødvendighed. Raeson, online, 16 October 2024.
253 Biesta, G. (2024). Ingen uddannelse uden uddanner. KvaN, 44(129), 40-50.
252 Biesta, G. (2024). Taking education seriously: The ongoing challenge. Educational Theory 74(3), 434-448. (published online 28 May 2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12646
251 Biesta, G. (2024). Teaching and teacher education in the age of evidence: The case for artistry. An interview with Gert Biesta by Philip Winter. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas 67, 1—18.
250 Biesta, G. (2024). Desinstrumentalizando la educación. Teoría De La Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 36(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.31487
2023
249 Biesta, G. (2023). The integrity of education and the future of educational studies. British Journal of Educational Studies. 71(5), 493-515. Accepted July 2023.
248 Biesta, G.J.J. (2023). La buona educazione in un’epoca di misurazioni:sulla necessità di recuperarela questione dello scopo dell’educare Good education in an age of measurement: On the need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education. Encyclopaideia, 27(1S), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/16834
247 Biesta, G. (2023). Putting the World in the Centre: a Different Future for Scotland’s Education. Scottish Educational Review, 54(2), 149-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/27730840-20231001
246 Biesta, G. (2023). Becoming contemporaneous: Intercultural communication pedagogy beyond culture and without ethics. Pedagogy, Culture and Society 31:2, 237-251. [accepted 20 October 2022] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2164341
2022
245 Biesta, G. (2022). Is het leraarschap nog de moeite waard? Waardenwerk. Journal of Humanistic Studies. ISSN 2214-3149.
244 Biesta, G. (2022). Reclaiming a future that has not yet been: The Faure report, UNESCO’s humanism, and the need for the emancipation of education. International Review of Education 68, 655-672. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-021-09921-x
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11159-021-09921-x.pdf. Open Access
243 Siegel, S. T. & Biesta, G. (2022). The problem of educational theory. Policy Futures in Education 20(5), 537–548. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103211032087
242 Biesta, G.J.J. (2022). School-as-institution of school-as-instrument? How to overcome instrumentalism without giving up on democracy. Educational Theory 72(3), 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12533 [published online 28 November 2022]
241 Biesta, G. & Zhao, K. (2022). Reflections on Contemporary Educational Research, Education as An Academic Discipline and a new perspective of subjectifying education. An Interview with Professor Gert Biesta. (教育研究、学科和理论再审思及主体化教育新视角——格特·比斯塔教授访谈录) Modern Education Review 248(6), 5-15. ISSN 2095-6762
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240 Apple, M.A., Biesta, G., Bright, D., Giroux, H.A., Heffernan, A., McLaren, P., Riddle, S. & Yeatman, A. (2022) Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education. Journal of Educational Administration and History 54(3), 245-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2022.2052029
239 Biesta, Gert, Kathleen Heugh, Hana Cervinkova, Lotar Rasiński, Sam Osborne, Deirdre Forde, Alison Wrench, Jenni Carter, Carl Anders Säfström, Hannah Soong, Suzanne O’Keeffe, Kathryn Paige, Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Leah O’Toole, Robert Hattam, Michael A. Peters & Marek Tesar (2022) Philosophy of education in a new key: Publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation. Educational Philosophy and Theory 54(8), 1216-1233.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1929172
238 Biesta, G. (2022). The school is not a learning environment: How language matters for the practical study of educational practices. Studies in Continuing Education 44(2), 336-346. Full article: The school is not a learning environment: how language matters for the practical study of educational practices (tandfonline.com)
237 Michael A. Peters, Fazal Rizvi, Gary McCulloch, Paul Gibbs, Radhika Gorur, Moon Hong, Yoonjung Hwang, Lew Zipin, Marie Brennan, Susan Robertson, John Quay, Justin Malbon, Danilo Taglietti, Ronald Barnett, Wang Chengbing, Peter McLaren, Rima Apple, Marianna Papastephanou, Nick Burbules, Liz Jackson, Pankaj Jalote, Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Aslam Fataar, James Conroy, Greg Misiaszek, Gert Biesta, Petar Jandrić, Suzanne S. Choo, Michael Apple, Lynda Stone, Rob Tierney, Marek Tesar, Tina Besley & Lauren Misiaszek (2022). Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54:6, 717-760. [My contribution titled: Back to school! A future for the university post-Covid-19.] DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1777655

2022 (published)
235 Biesta, G. (2022). Why the form of teaching matters: Defending the integrity of education and of the work of teachers beyond agendas and good intentions. Revista de Educación 395, January-March, 13-33. DOI: 10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2022-395-519
234 Biesta, G. (2022). Por qué la forma de la enseñanza importa: una defensa de la integridad de la educación y del trabajo de los profesores más allá de programas y buenas intenciones. Revista de Educación 395, 13-34. DOI: 10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2022-395-519
2021 (published)
2020 (published)
230 Biesta, G. & van Braak, M. (2020). Beyond the medical model: Thinking differently about medical education and medical education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 32(4), 449-456. DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2020.1798240
229 Biesta, G.J.J. (2020). Risking ourselves in education: Qualification, socialisation and subjectification revisited. Educational Theory 70(1), 89-104. DOI: 10.1111/edth.12411
228 Hannam, P., Biesta, G., Whittle, S. & Aldridge, D. (2020). Religious literacy: A way forward for religious education? Journal of Beliefs and Values 41(2), 214-226. DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2020.1736969
227 Heimans, S. & Biesta, G. (2020). Rediscovering the beauty and risk of education research and teaching: an interview with Gert Biesta by Stephen Heimans. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 48(2), 101-110. DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2020.1731422
226 Biesta, G.J.J. (2020). Can the prevailing description of educational reality be considered complete? On the Parks-Eichmann paradox, spooky action at a distance, and a missing dimension in the theory of education. Policy Futures in Education 18(8), 1011-1025. DOI: 10.1177/1478210320910312
225 Biesta, G.J.J. (2020). What constitutes the good of education? Reflections on the possibility of educational critique. Educational Philosophy and Theory 52(10), 1023-1027. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1723468
223 Biesta, G. (2020). “Prepararse para lo incalculable” Deconstrucción, justicia y la pregunta por la educación (Trad. C. Valenzuela y D. González). Pedagogía y Saberes, 52, 11–25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17227/pys.num52-8619

