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Slobodno vrijeme kao vrijeme istinskog obrazovanja
Free Time as Time of True Education

Author(s): Zvonimir Komar
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: education; pedagogy; freedom; time; educational system

Summary/Abstract: Idea of (general) education as a central idea of pedagogy is not understood as knowledge of particular being or of some process or activity, but as self-knowledge of this being or activity within free subject. Only reflection of knowledge back into itself is that which truly educates, in difference from every merely functional, heteronomous »education« for purposes set from outside. Free subject is only that which is in its full sense autonomous and that can freely act as self-determining being. The paper will try to see through relation between idea of education and idea of “free time” seen as process of existence of to its own idea adequate subject. We will try to examine this relation both in its idea and on the level of phenomenon in area of educational system. The intended purpose of this paper therefore isn’t “education in free time” in context of assumed dichotomy free time-working time, just as it isn’t “education for free time”, but “education as education of free subject in for those process adequate institutions”.

  • Issue Year: 29/2009
  • Issue No: 02/114
  • Page Range: 297-302
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Croatian