Educational hermeneutics
The educational hermeneutics is a hermeneutic research method that aims to offer a scientific method for obtaining educational relevant knowledge. It is part of the humanities pedagogy and tries to interpret the meaning and the basic phenomena of upbringing and education as hermeneutics of the educational reality.
Since hermeneutics sees itself as standing on the horizon of history , educational hermeneutics tries to achieve the objectives described (interpretation of the meaning and the basic phenomena of upbringing and education), for example by interpreting historical pedagogical texts and by interpreting the historical-political prerequisites of educational institutions as well as the world of children and young people.
Pedagogical hermeneutics assumes that an educator learns by getting into a situation with a certain prior understanding or by dealing with a certain scientific issue with a certain prior understanding. Through the results of his actions or research, he comes to an understanding of the subject that is expanded compared to his previous understanding (cf. Friedrich Schleiermacher ).
According to this, the pedagogue creates the transfer from the understanding of the subject to an expanded prior understanding through reflection , which he can apply when he comes into such a situation again or deals (again) with a similar or the same scientific issue. This cycle can theoretically be continued indefinitely (cf. hermeneutical circle ).
literature
- Christian Rittelmeyer, Michael Parmentier: Introduction to educational hermeneutics. Darmstadt 2006.
- Hartmut von Hentig : Education. Munich, Vienna 1996.
- Arnim Kaiser: The hermeneutic position. In: Study book pedagogy. Basic and examination knowledge. Berlin 1981.