EN
Pedagogy, both as an academically theoretical activity and humanistically social practice has been under a serious crisis for a long time. Obviously, this crisis has been caused by numerous reasons, both external and internal. Yet, it seems to be a perfect opportunity to re-discover the source of pedagogy in the philosophy of upbringing and – through the conversion in the centre of pedagogical thinking – to restore the tension between philosophy (in its wise ontological-metaphysical hesitation) and pedagogy. It seems clear that this lack of tension and limiting pedagogy to a detailed social science, is damaging and appears to be the fundamental problem and the main reason of the critical condition of contemporary pedagogy.