Hermeneutic Pedagogy

teaching and learning as dialogue and interpretation

G.V. Loewen

2012

Contents

1. Introduction - hermeneutics and critical pedagogy 1

2. Hexis - what students bring to overcome 41

2.1 The Resource of Custom in the Classroom 41Critiques of Hexis as a Pedagogic Outcome 41Making Hexis into Praxis 66

2.2 Analysis of 'what has been the case' 82What Rather to do with the Presence of Hexis 82Evaluations and Class Activities 95

3. Praxis - what attempts the overcoming of previous prejudice 103

3.1 Tyche Reduced to Masterful Techne 103Some Sources of Instrumentality 103The Appeal of Instrumentality as an Ideal 120

3.2 Questioning the Shill of Skill - 134 The Results and Critique of Actual Instrumentality 134Evaluations and class activities 154

4. Phronesis - experience and knowledge as practical wisdom 165

4.1 Opening the Hermeneutic Circle through Suspicion 165The Full Humanity of Phronesis 165

4.2 Remaining at Large - the World Authenticates the Self 188Practical Consequences of Practical Wisdom 188Evaluations and class activities 204

5. Conclusion: What Wisdom Does Wisdom Is 213

6. Notes 223

7. References 227

8. Index

For my students; past, present, and future

ISBN: 978-0-9856479-6-4Old Moon Academic PressP.O. Box 1064Alcoa, TN 37701www.oldmoonacademicbooks.com

'The familiar is for humanity the open region for the presencing of the unfamiliar' - Heraclitus