Professor W A Landman

Fundamental Pedagogics: Publications

FUNDAMENTAL PEDAGOGICAL CATEGORIES OF EDUCATING

  1. RELATIONSHIP STRUCTURE (as the inter-personal foundation of educating)

    Trust (as the affective aspect of educating)
    Understanding (as the cognitive aspect)
    Authority (as the normative aspect)

  2. SEQUENCE STRUCTURE (as the rhythm of educating)

    Association (being-by)
    Encounter (being-with)
    Engagement (being-for)
    Pedagogic intervention (acting)
    Return to association (being-by again)
    Periodic breaking away from association (being away, apart)

  3. ACTIVITY STRUCTURE (as the mutual involvement of adult and child in educating)

    Being-in-a-meaningful educative situation requires:

    Giving meaning with increasing responsibility
    Gradually breaking away from lack of exertion
    Exemplifying and emulating norms

    Educative co-existence (being with) means:

    Venturing (risking) with each other pedagogically
    Being grateful for pedagogic security
    Being responsible for educative relationships

    Pedagogic temporality (futurity) points to:

    Wanting to attain future adulthood
    Actualizing potentialities for adulthood
    Gradually achieving adulthood

    Educatively becoming-somebody-oneself implies:

    Increasing respect for human dignity
    Achieving adulthood through increased self-understanding
    Conquering of responsible freedom

  4. AIM STRUCTURE (Normative adulthood as the aim of educating)

    Meaningful existence
    Self-judgment and self-understanding
    Respect for human dignity
    Morally independent choosing and responsible acting
    Norm identification
    Outlook on life (philosophy of life)