What is real? What is evident? What is true? These questions of the constitution of reality in our experiences are among the key questions of phenomenology since its beginning. Lately, they become especially relevant under conditions of digitalisation, acceleration, optimisation, crises, and pandemics. In this volume, these questions are taken up in different interdisciplinary and intercultural, phenomenological perspectives from a pedagogical point of view. Starting from a critique of instrumental scientism and optimisation, the contributions in this book ask about the theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practical constitution of reality within experiences of learning, Bildung, and education, as well as the subjects, materialities, and mediality of such experiences in different pedagogical fields and institutions. The contributions show how Phenomenological Pedagogy is fruitful to explore the realities of pedagogical practices, by grasping lifeworldy, lived-bodily, and social experiences in a qualitatively meaningful, empirical and experience-oriented way. It can thus serve as an alternative to positivistic, scientistic, idealistic, or psychologistic approaches.
Introduction.- Bildung in the World Phenomenological Thoughts on
Reality, Givenness, and Experience of the World under conditions of
destruction.- The Method of Empirical Phenomenology.- (Re-)turning to
Reality. Phenomenological and New Materialist Perspectives on Reflection in
Teacher Education.- Eugen Fink and the Renewed Experience of Reality.-
Merleau-Ponty on child psychology and pedagogy: reappraising students
embodied, and intersubjective learning in contemporary education.- The
Digital Colonisation of the Virtual and the Persistence of (Proto)Virtuality
in Educational Settings.- Emergency Remote Learning: A Phenomenology of
Pointing and the Computer.- The embodied experience of reality in film
education.- Musical listening between everyday reality and sensitive
experience. On the aesthetic education of young people.- From inattention to
attentiveness: Learning to listen when nature speaks.- Realities and
identities: Multiple realities in the classroom and the non-affirmative
Bildung-theory.- A withdrawal of reality? Boredom, disembodiment, and
isolation as aspects of teaching in pandemic times.- Learning Atmospheres in
Pandemic Times Different Realities.- Applying Phenomenology in Education.
The Case of Special Educational Needs.- The Dialogue in Gadamers
Hermeneutics: Implications to Perceive, Experience, and Interpret in
Chemistry Education.- Making the complexity of realities tangible.
Ethical-ecological aspects of collaborative constitutions of reality in the
context of early childhood education and care (ECEC).- Caring, emotion,
optimisation.- Negative emotions, exclusionary practices and the optimisation
of learning.- Affects, Atmospheres and the Perception of Education
Addressing Methodological Problems in Educational Research with Practice
Theory, Phenomenology and New Materialism.
Prof. Dr. Malte Brinkmann holds the Chair for General Pedagogy at the Department of Education Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Johannes Türstig and Martin Weber-Spanknebel are research assistants at the Department of Education Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
