Interpretation of Education toward Values by Wolfgang Brezinka. Cover Image

Interpretačný odkaz výchovy hodnotám Wolfganga Brezinku.
Interpretation of Education toward Values by Wolfgang Brezinka.

Author(s): Miroslav Gejdoš
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: Wolfgang Brezinka; Education; Values; Educational aims;

Summary/Abstract: In this work the author introduces Wolfgang Brezinka, who was born on 9th of June 1928. He became associate professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1954, since then he has been living in Tirol, Austria. He has taught at the University in Wurzburg, Innsbruck and Konstanz. He is famous as the main representative of empirical-analytical pedagogy, the so called scientific pedagogy. In his late writings, he attempted to align pedagogy with Catholicism and critical realism (he mainly leans on the ideas of K. Popper, C.G.Nemlel, H. Albert and W. Stegmuller). By critical realism it is meant contemporary philosophical school (standpoint of the mind), according to which some scientific theories are impossible to prove. He stems from the assumption that people do not learn by understanding things, but by their own mistakes. Up until the 19th century, pedagogy had been a part of philosophy and the whole pedagogical thinking developed within various philosophical, religious and political concepts

  • Issue Year: 18/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 51-62
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovak