• DOI:10.1007/S11217-012-9312-9
Corpus ID: 170811865

Receiving the Gift of Teaching: From ‘Learning From’ to ‘Being Taught By’

@article{Biesta2013ReceivingTG,
  title={Receiving the Gift of Teaching: From ‘Learning From’ to ‘Being Taught By’},
  author={G. Biesta},
  journal={Studies in Philosophy and Education},
  year={2013},
  volume={32},
  pages={449-461}
}

• G. Biesta
• Published 2013
• Sociology
• Studies in Philosophy and Education

This paper is an enquiry into the meaning of teaching. I argue that as a result of the influence of constructivist ideas about learning on education, teaching has become increasingly understood as the facilitation of learning rather than as a process where teachers have something to give to their students. The idea that teaching is immanent to learning goes back to the Socratic idea of teaching as a maieutic process, that is, as bringing out what is already there. Against the maieutic… Expand

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