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Publication Date: 2020
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'Education as a "Geisteswissenschaft"': An Introduction to Human Science Pedagogy
Friesen, Norm
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v52 n3 p307-322 2020
Human Science Pedagogy is 'a strange case,' as Jürgen Oelkers has recently noted: In the Anglophone world, where Gert Biesta has compellingly encouraged scholars to 'reconsider education as a Geisteswissenschaft' (a human science) its main themes and the contributions of its central figures remain unknown. For Germans, particularly in more 'general' or philosophical areas of educational scholarship (i.e. "Allgemeine Pädagogik"), this same pedagogy is recognized only insofar as it is critiqued and rejected. Taking this strange situation as its frame, this paper introduces Human Science Pedagogy to English-language readers, providing a cursory overview of its history and principal contributors, while suggesting the contemporary relevance of its themes and questions in both English- and German-language scholarship. This paper concludes with an appeal to readers on both sides of the Atlantic to new or renewed consideration of this pedagogy as a significant and influential source for educational thinking deserving further scholarly attention.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Criticism, English, German, Scholarship, Educational Theories, Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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