This article deals with Bollnow's existential ideas of education, particularly the way he understands the roles of teachers, based on his book, Existenzphilosophie und Pa¨dagogik. Bollnow combines the view of human beings, on which the traditional vi...
This article deals with Bollnow's existential ideas of education, particularly the way he understands the roles of teachers, based on his book, Existenzphilosophie und Pa¨dagogik. Bollnow combines the view of human beings, on which the traditional view of education is based, with the existential view. According to him, man's life is the process in which the duration of daily routines and the fateful events cross. Also in education, everyday teaching and existential meetings cross and supplement each other. According to his thoughts, teachers are understood like these. First, building up their students' characters, teachers make everyday education in progress. Second, teachers understand and protect the meetings which visit their students. Third, teachers are understood to meet their students for himself and to be changed with the students. Above all, teachers can guide their students to a wider life and a new world when they understand the existential meaning of education and practice it.