英文摘要 |
The study enquires into Blankertz's critical pedagogy. Blankertz's theory has been often considered closely tied to critical theory due to its emphasizing the influence of socio-political factors on education. Scholars have been arguing over the relationship of the critical pedagogy and critical theory. Some agree that the critical pedagogy is only an applied case of critical theory. Others in contrast contend the substantial import of the critical pedagogy. In this study, in order to clarify the interrelated relationship between the critical pedagogy and critical theory, we focus on the most widely discussed case, namely that of Blankertz, by adopting the method of educational hermeneutics.Blankertz first based his critical pedagogy fully on critical theory by 1971. But afterwards he increasingly payed more and more attention to Kant's ideas of Enlightenment and primacy of practical reason as the purpose of education and to W. von Humboldt's theory of Bildung as educational method. He made efforts to integrate their ideas into the conception of emancipatory interest of critical theory in a way that enabled him a new understanding of social critique which then became constitutive for his own theory. We contend that Blankertz's works, based on the conception of emancipation of critical theory, endorse a normative basis for social critique in the tradition of the German critical pedagogy and show this tradition still has much to contribute to contemporary educational discourses. |