Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the Educational Sciences Early Critical Theory: Theodor W' Adorn

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Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the
Educational Sciences Early Critical Theory
Theodor W. Adorno on Education

• Krassimir Stojanov, University of Oulu,
  13.-15.May 2009

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Contents

• Educational Works of Adorno
• Authoritarian Character and Self-Weakness as
  Educational Issues
• Education as Cultivation of Resistance
• Cultural Industry and the Half-Education

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Educational Works of Adorno

• Erziehung zur Mündigkeit
• Eine Theorie der Halbbildung

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Authoritarian Character and Self-Weakness as
Educational Issues

• The Concept of Authoritarian Personality
• The Causes of Self-Weakness
• Education as Making Authentic Experiences
• Education as Cultivation of Resistance

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Cultural Industry and the Half-Education

• Cultural Industry as Reification
• Encountering the Higher Culture as Tool against
  Half-Education