1. Krassimir Stojanov, University of Oulu, 13.-15.May 2009
Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the Educational Sciences Classical and Modern Hermeneutics and their Educational Impact
Krassimir Stojanov, University of Oulu, May 2009

2. Contents Structure of the whole Lecture
Hermeneutical and Analytical Philosophy
Hermeneutics as Art of Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics as an Approach in the Educational Sciences
Hermeneutics and Reconstruction of Subjectivity‘s Development

3. Structure of the whole Lecture
Classical and Modern Hermeneutics and their Educational Impact
Hermeneutics and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences
Critical Theory as Critique on the Hermeneutic Approach
Early Critical Theory: Theodor W. Adorno on Education
“Social Pathology” as the Key-Concept of the New Critical Theory
Social Pathologies in Education

4. Hermeneutical and Analytical Philosophy
„Continental“ and „Anglo-Saxon“ Philosophy
Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis
Philosophy as Rational Reconstruction of Meaning
Context and History in Philosophical Reflections
To 3: Habermas
To 4: The Early Wittgenstein and the Logical Positivism vs. the Historic-Hermeneutical aopproach

5. Hermeneutics as Art of Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics
The Role of Historical Distance in the „Classical Hermeneutics“
The Hermeneutical Circle
The Principle of “Fusion of Horizons” (Gadamer)
Hermeneutics as Historically Informed Conceptual Analysis
Hermeneutics and Intersubjectivity
To 3: „Truth and Method“ (1957):Gadamer – Heidegger - Husserl

6. Hermeneutics as an Approach in the Educational Sciences
„Geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik“ (Nohl, Weniger, Spranger, Klafki)
Qualitative Biographical Research
To 1: The lack of normativity: „The Spirit of the People“

7. Hermeneutics and Reconstruction of Subjectivity‘s Development
What is Education?
Education as a simultaneous process of self-development and world-disclosing
Education as intersubjective Process
To 1: R. S. Peters: Education as transmsion of something that is worth-while, as growing of understanding (developing a cognitive perspective), as giving respect