What is it about?
According to Biesta, emancipation is understood in these models as liberation that results from a process in which a teacher transmits objective knowledge to his or her students and cultivates student capabilities. He claims that this so-called modern logic of emancipation does not lead to freedom because it installs inequality, dependency, and mistrust in the pedagogical relationship. In this article, Antti Moilanen and Rauno Huttunen analyze whether German models of emancipatory education share the modern logic of emancipation and if they can escape Biesta's criticisms.
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Why is it important?
There is still much to learn form German critical pedagogue.
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This page is a summary of: The German Logic of Emancipation and Biesta's Criticism of Emancipatory Pedagogy, Educational Theory, December 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/edth.12506.
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