Mutuality and Intersubjective Dialogue in Religious Education

• Authors: Shuster Daniel

Title variants

PL

Wzajemność i międzypodmiotowy dialog w edukacji religijnej

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Intentional mutuality and intersubjective dialogue woven into the pedagogy of youth and adults is a radical idea in any educational setting; however in the case of religious education it can provide a generative, hermeneutic, learning platform for the development of Christocentric living (as one example). Through so doing, this learning platform can easily extend into the postmodern secular sphere to temper and balance its epistemic forms with hermeneutics, ethics, empathy, and social justice. Where religious education can remain free of the control of neoliberal ideology, it can help students flourish in their humanity and agency. At the same time, religious education and critical pedagogies can be further developed on the shoulders of their giants with gleanings from the secular world—practices and methods from a range of human traditions. In that spirit, the author borrows substantial elements from his previous work (Shuster 2006) on the effectiveness of dialogue and intersubjectivity in postmodern workgroups and speculates on its utility to learning groups and classrooms.

PL

Celowa wzajemność i międzypodmiotowy dialog, wplecione w pedagogię młodzieży i dorosłych, stanowi radykalną ideę w dziedzinie edukacji. W przypadku edukacji religijnej może to oznaczać organizację generatywnej i hermeneutycznej platformy nauczania, służącej rozwijaniu chrystocentrycznego modelu życia (jako jednego z przykładów). W ten sposób platforma ta może łatwo się rozszerzać, wkraczając na obszar ponowoczesny i świecki, łagodząc i równoważąc przy tym jego epistemiczne formy hermeneutyką, etyką, empatią i sprawiedliwością społeczną. Tam, gdzie edukacja religijna pozostaje wolna od kontroli ze strony neoliberalnej ideologii, tam może pomóc uczniom w rozwoju ich człowieczeństwa i aktywności. W tym samym czasie edukacja religijna oraz krytycznie ukierunkowane pedagogie mogą być rozwijane przez ich głównych orędowników, zbierając przy tym doświadczenia również ze świeckiego świata, tj. praktyki i metody reprezentujące rozmaite tradycje. Podążając za tym przykładem, autor przejmuje znaczące elementy ze swej wcześniejszej pracy (Shuster 2006) na temat skuteczności dialogu i międzypodmiotowości w ponowoczesnych grupach pracowniczych i zastanawia się nad ich przydatnością w grupach osób uczących się oraz podczas zajęć w klasie szkolnej.

Keywords

EN

hermeneutics; ethics; social justice; critical pedagogy; intersubjectivity; neurolinguistic interactions; genetic phenomenology; tripartite intersubjectivity

PL

hermeneutyka; etyka; sprawiedliwość społeczna; pedagogia krytyczna; międzypodmiotowość; interakcje neurolingwistyczne; fenomenologia genetyczna; trójpodział międzypodmiotowości

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 149-176

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Shuster Daniel

• Independent Researcher, USA

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Identifiers

ISSN

2450-5358

DOI

10.12775/SPI.2015.008