Overview
- Explicates Kierkegaard's otherwise fragmented and often merely implicit thoughts on education
- Elucidates the relationship between formal, informal and existential education
- Written in an accessible, informative style, free of philological subtleties and jargon
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- existential philosophy
- authenticity
- teaching as facillitating personal development
- teaching without compromising individual autonomy
- indirect communication
- ideal of self-cultivation
- self-agency
- self-efficacy
- Bildung
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Kierkegaard philosophy
- limitations of objective knowledge
- self-realization in education
- existentialism
About this book
This book is a succinct guide to Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution to educational thought. Kierkegaard is not usually known as an educational thinker, but the book shows how his key notions and ideas are nevertheless highly relevant to educational theory and practice. It places them within the context of Kierkegaard’s philosophy and the philosophy of his time, while also exploring their significance to issues of contemporary concern, like the question of how far education should aim at fostering useful skills or support more ambitious goals. The central topics are Kierkegaard’s diagnosis of the limitations of objective knowledge and his corresponding emphasis on know-how, personal appropriation and subjective attitude; his analysis of more or less successful forms of self-realization; his ideas about fostering personal development through “indirect communication” and dialogue; and the elements, strengths and shortcomings of the ideal of self-cultivation (German Bildung).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Søren Kierkegaard
Book Subtitle: Educating for Authenticity
Authors: Søren Harnow Klausen
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73186-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73185-8Published: 09 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73186-5Published: 01 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 79
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Existentialism