Malte Brinkmann: Embodied Understanding in Pedagogical Contexts (19 September 2017)
Channel: Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft an der HU Berlin
Date: 2018-01-24

Presentation by Prof. Dr. Malte Brinkmann (Humboldt University of Berlin) on Embodied Understanding, held on the 4th International Symposion on Phenomenological Research in Education. Berlin, 19 September 2017.

Prof. Brinkmann's homepage: https://hu.berlin/aew_eng
Blog: http://paed.ophen.org/?lang=en
Symposion on Phenomenological Research in Education: https://hu.berlin/sym_phen_ed

Abstract:
This presentation tries to answer two questions: How do we understand each other? And: Can a pedagogical understanding be regarded a special practice of understanding and be defined as such? To answer these questions, hermeneutic theories of understanding will differentiated be from phenomenological ones, especially from phenomenological theories of the lived body. Then it is argued, that the semiotic and subject-centred hermeneutic understanding conceptualized by Dilthey and Gadamer and the concept of empathy (Einfühlung) leads to an equalization and even colonization of the other in the process of understanding. In contrast, it is pleaded for a change of perspective, towards an intercorporal hermeneutics, which focuses on embodied, singular experiences in the call of the other and leads to a theory of pedagogical inter-attentionality, in which pedagogical pointing, showing is answered by attentionality and attentiveness.