Pedagogical authority - an outdated category?

Educational authority is an elementary and at the same time ambivalent phenomenon, because upbringing and education always have to do with power and trust. In his Kosmos Kind lecture, Roland Reichenbach talks about the quality, possibilities and limits of educational relationships.

Roland Reichenbach has been Professor of General Educational Science at the University of Zurich since 2013. From 2002 to 2008, he was Professor of General and Systematic Educational Science at the University of Münster and then Professor of Education at the University of Basel. His research and teaching activities have taken him to the USA, Canada, Germany and South Korea. His main areas of interest are the philosophy of education, educational ethics and political education.

Lecture from 22.11.2022 (53:21 min): Pedagogical authority is an elementary and at the same time ambivalent phenomenon, because upbringing and education always have to do with power and trust. The child's trust in the parents or the pupils' trust in the teacher cannot simply be taken for granted as «natural»: It has to be earned! In the Kosmos Kind lecture, Roland Reichenbach talks about the quality, possibilities and limits of educational relationships.

Lecture cycle «Cosmos child»

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