Annotation
The leading idea in European thinking is that a philosophical background is an inherent part of educational concepts- this idea is known as philosophical anthropology. This seminar introduces students to the so-called "patterns of humanity", which have become the basis and starting point for the most modern pedagogical concepts. “Patterns of humanity” are both a prerequisite for education and the goal of education.
The aim of this course is to philosophically and pedagogically analyze the ‘human condition’ and to think about its effects on educational concepts in the past and present.
Main topics: 1. Time in education, birth and death, chronos and kairos, synchronous and diachronic time, happy moments of the educated and the educator, the passage of time, and duration. The temporal nature of human existence, and the pursuit of meaning. 2. Freedom and necessity, contingency and destiny, what can be influenced and changed in human nature by education and what the voice of the blood in us is. The bonds that connect a man to earth - personality and individuality, empathy and sympathy, coexistence and reciprocity, and the nature of educational “erot”. Symmetry and asymmetry of the educational relationship.
Proximity and foreignness, home and foreign land, loneliness and alienation. Cosmological education. The role of the game in education.