190097 SE Theory of Educational Science: Curriculum and Instructions (2015W)

German educational philosophy, based on the tradition of the philosophy of experience (or phenomenology of experience, or phenomenology of lifeworld) has developed a rich discourse on the experience of breach, break, rupture and discontinuity, often termed "negativity of experience" (Negativität der Erfahrung) and also "negative experience" (negative Erfahrung). This course takes up this discourse to verify the negativity of experience, which arises in our encounters with difference and otherness, as the begininnings of learning. This in turn is taken up in an empirical research project to make sense of the irritations and tensionalities in "difficult" teaching and learning situations, charcterized by expereinces of frustration, confusion, perplexity and resistance, to corroborate this "negative experience" as a basis for learning.