Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited? | Journal of Philosophy of Education | Oxford Academic
Elodie Guillemin, Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 274–289, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae057 Elodie Guillemin, Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 274–289, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae057 This article explores Biesta’s recent revisiting of his iconic and at times contested notion of education as subjectification. First, I look at how Biesta presents his notion by attending to his answers to the criticisms it has faced concerning elusiveness, oversimplification, and self-centredness. Then, going beyond the declarative level, I explore a concrete example of education as subjectification from Biesta’s 2022 book, World-Centred Education. Analysing the example of Homer Lane and Jason, I examine the ambivalence between Biesta’s explicit statements on subjectification as a for
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