The Failure of Competence-Based Education and the Demand for Bildung
Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350517981
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
This book contrasts two prominent models of education, Competence-Based Education (CBE) which is the dominant model in most school systems of the world, and Bildung-Oriented Education (BOE), once the basis of school systems of Northern Europe.
CBE interprets learning as the acquisition of clearly definable and allegedly measurable competences, and it is supported by supranational organisations, such as the OECD. BOE characterises learning holistically, aimed at the progressive articulation of a meaningful 'big picture' in the student's mind. Moretti and Marabini argue that, in spite of its celebrated 'scientificity', CBE is incoherent and unreliable, and contributes to structural forms of oppression and injustice, fosters social pathologies, and fails to provide students with the kind of intellectual autonomy they need in our complex post-industrial societies. They defend BOE from objections made by critical theorists, poststructuralists and postcolonial thinkers, and argue that it is a coherent and flexible model of education that endows students with autonomy and responsibility, and can help heal social pathologies. The book builds analytical bridges and explores connections between philosophy of education and important issues currently debated in critical theory, political philosophy and social epistemology.
Table of Contents:
Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction
1. Two Conceptions of Education
2. Competence-Based Education
3. Competence-Based Education and Society
4. Bildung-Oriented Education
5. Cultural Imperialism and Student Assessment
6. Bildung and Forms of Life
Bibliography
Index
