Theory of education

The book is intended for teachers and students of pedagogy, teacher education and the wider educational community. It introduces the concept of educational theory as a comprehensively based reflection taking into account the methodological ambiguity of the starting points in thinking about education: the starting point of philosophy and the starting point of science. The reader will find a discussion of the concepts in the text, without which educational theory cannot do without (discourse, formative process, Interest, Authority, education, culture, theories, practice also. ). The author asks whether contemporary pedagogy, with its emphasis on "action" and "experience", lacks an interest in a deeper reflection on these basic concepts. It contradicts attempts to understand education through unambiguous definitions, and emphasizes the antinomic, contradictory nature of the process of education and the whole pedagogical theory. He warns of the dangers of forgetting the importance of the ideal in education and rejects the resignation to the search for evaluative standards in the era of the so-called "ideal". of postmodernism. The purpose of this book is to contribute to the search for a comprehensive conception of educational theory.