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The ’Other’ as a task of Education in Multicultural Europe Contents 1) The necessity of the ’other’ ( O.F. Bollnow, 1903- 1991) The Radical other 2) Mimesis (C. Wulf) 3) The European ’Others’
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The ’Other’ as a task of Education in Multicultural Europe. Contents 1) The necessity of the ’other’ ( O.F. Bollnow, 1903-1991) The Radical other 2) Mimesis (C. Wulf) 3) The European ’Others’. The Necessity of the ’Other’. long dependence physically, psychologically, socially - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The ’Other’ as a task of Education in Multicultural
Europe
Contents
1) The necessity of the ’other’ ( O.F. Bollnow, 1903-1991)
The Radical other
2) Mimesis (C. Wulf)
3) The European ’Others’
The Necessity of the ’Other’
long dependence physically, psychologically, socially
imperfection of human being
possibility to say “me”
asymmetry between generations
demand to own activity (Aufforderung zur Selbsttätigkeit)
goal to neutralise the asymmetry
radical other
Radical other
borders of understanding
”even if there are some moments of understanding, there is always unconquerable strangeness; fascinating and tempting, but also frightful and threatening. And this feeling gets the stronger, the more one tries to intrude into it” (Bollnow 1986)
Mimesis
• Mimetic action, its necessity and indefinability
• ”imitate”
• not mechanical, not copying, not reproduction,
• creative, action
• to describe, express, admire
• originally: good in moral sense
• A painted picture is a represented picture of the original
• ” That is not a hammer”
• created picture between me and object - Beetwenness
parents as example: child mimics parents and social
environment
pick up features and create an own “world”
between two extremes: avoiding - fusing
description of process difficult
many factors
what is object of the mimic process?
xenophobia
no differences, own existence threatened
Mimesis in Education
The European ’Others’
education not a task of individual state
more attention to similarities and differences
political and institutional level
the action of individual not independent from
cultural background
European history: destruction of cultural tradition
Europeanization = neglecting subcultures?
respect for diversity
value of the ”other”
Discussion
The aspects of reflection: 1) the other (encounter) 2) the radical other (Mimesis, mimetic process); 3) to teach “otherness” 4) self-heterogeneity of Europe
Choose a way to reflect the lesson: paint a picture make a comic make a little drama make a poem write a little essay stage an academical debate
