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Summary Of No Education Without Hesitation : Gert Biesta

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In this article ‘No Education without Hesitation: Exploring the Limits of Educational Relations’, Gert Biesta stresses the importance teacher-student relationship and the ability to maintain learning without hesitating. However, one of the major drawbacks that come with the relationship between the teacher and the student is the likelihood that they may over-relate hence compromise space for education to take place. According to Gert, majorly, this occurs when the teacher tries to dig too much of a student`s information such that they get too close to each other. The risk that comes with too much closeness is that the education may tend to lose its significance especially when the teacher focuses more on the relational dimensions (Gert, 2012, p.1). The argument provided by Gert Biesta rhyme with those provided by Macmillan and Garrison’s erotetic education in that they both recognize the importance of communication in education. One of the major aspects of erotetic education is communicative competencies which ensure that students are able to dialogue effectively as part of improving their relationship. For instance, question sessions ensure that the dialogue is lively and is maintained all through the learning process. They believe that a teacher should teach students so that they can be able to generate questions which the teacher would then clarify on. According to Gert, the English language is inadequate in its distinction in that it is

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