Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the Educational Sciences Classical and Modern Hermeneutics and their Educational Impact

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Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the
Educational Sciences Classical and Modern
Hermeneutics and their Educational Impact

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

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Contents

• Structure of the whole Lecture
• Hermeneutical and Analytical Philosophy
• Hermeneutics as Art of Interpretation and
  Philosophical Hermeneutics
• Hermeneutics as an Approach in the Educational
  Sciences
• Hermeneutics and Reconstruction of Subjectivitys
  Development

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Structure of the whole Lecture

• Classical and Modern Hermeneutics and their
  Educational Impact
• Hermeneutics and Empirical Research in the Social
  Sciences
• Critical Theory as Critique on the Hermeneutic
  Approach
• Early Critical Theory Theodor W. Adorno on
  Education
• Social Pathology as the Key-Concept of the New
  Critical Theory
• Social Pathologies in Education

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Hermeneutical and Analytical Philosophy

• Continental and Anglo-Saxon Philosophy
• Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis
• Philosophy as Rational Reconstruction of Meaning
• Context and History in Philosophical Reflections

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Hermeneutics as Art of Interpretation and
Philosophical Hermeneutics

• The Role of Historical Distance in the Classical
  Hermeneutics
• The Hermeneutical Circle
• The Principle of Fusion of Horizons (Gadamer)
• Hermeneutics as Historically Informed Conceptual
  Analysis
• Hermeneutics and Intersubjectivity

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Hermeneutics as an Approach in the Educational
Sciences

• Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik (Nohl,
  Weniger, Spranger, Klafki)
• Qualitative Biographical Research

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Hermeneutics and Reconstruction of Subjectivitys
Development

• What is Education?
• Education as a simultaneous process of
  self-development and world-disclosing
• Education as intersubjective Process