This book is a succinct guide to Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution
to educational thought. Kierkegaard is not usually known as an
educational thinker, but the book shows how his key notions and ideas
are nevertheless highly relevant to educational theory and practice.
It places them within the context of Kierkegaard’s philosophy and
the philosophy of his time, while also exploring their significance to
issues of contemporary concern, like the question of how far education
should aim at fostering useful skills or support more ambitious goals.
The central topics are Kierkegaard’s diagnosis of the limitations of
objective knowledge and his corresponding emphasis on know-how,
personal appropriation and subjective attitude; his analysis of more
or less successful forms of self-realization; his ideas about
fostering personal development through “indirect communication”
and dialogue; and the elements, strengths and shortcomings of the
ideal of self-cultivation (German Bildung).
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ISBN
9783319731865
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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