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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438330603321

Autore

Saeverot Herner

Titolo

Indirect pedagogy : some lessons in existential education / / by Herner Saeverot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam, : SensePublishers, 2013

ISBN

9788462091948

94-6209-193-5

94-6209-194-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Collana

Educational futures ; ; v. 58

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Teaching - Philosophy

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- The Need for Reconnecting with Existentialism in Education -- Time for Existential Education -- The Pedagogic Art of Seduction -- Educative Deceit -- Ironic Teaching -- Indirect Teacher Praise -- Existential Education and the Question of ‘God’ -- Epilogue -- References -- Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

While existential issues perhaps concern people the most, today’s education is not as preoccupied with such issues. Instead, education is becoming more uniform and streamlined; more and more one-sidedly directed towards what is useful. The purpose of this book is to focus on education’s existential dimension. Such a focus requires at least three things. Firstly, we need to justify why it is necessary to reconnect with existentialism in education. Secondly, we need to undergo an examination of the quality of existential education, so that we can have a basis as to what kind of educational interests teachers should have. Thirdly, we need to gain knowledge about how teachers may teach in light of existential matters. However, to teach in light of existence is highly paradoxical in that existence cannot be forced on someone, but is rather a subjective matter. Teaching which is non-ironical or too direct can thus be very problematic concerning existential issues. The reason being that there is no objective truth in terms of existence.



There is only a matter of subjective or existential truth, which is only true for the single individual. Therefore, the book suggests that the approach teachers’ take must be discrete and indirect so as to create room for students to take responsibility for their subjective truth. Such an indirect pedagogy is not a programme, but rather a form of existential education. The overall aim of the book is, by way of introducing and developing the concept of indirect pedagogy, to extend and reinvent the language of teaching.