Trends and Issues of the "bildungstheoretisch orientierte Biographieforschung" in the contemporary German Philosophy of Education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04222
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Aichi University of Education
• Principal Investigator: NOBIRA SHINJI 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50243530)
• Research Collaborator: Koller Hans=Christoph ハンブルク大学, 教授 ; Wigger Lothar ドルトムント工科大学, 教授 ; Müller Hans=Rüdiger オスナブリュック大学, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 人間形成論 / ライフヒストリー研究 / ビオグラフィ研究 / 質的人間形成研究 / ドイツ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to examine trends and issues of the bildungstheoretisch orientierte Biographieforschung (BOB) in the contemporary German philosophy of education, especially focusing on the definition of the concept of Bildung (1) and the relation between empirical reality and conceptual normativity (2). In this research, it is found out that the concept of Bildung is defined as any transformation of figure of relation to self, to others and to the world in the Theory of Bildung as the transformative process, one of the representative theories of the trends of BOB, proposed by H. -Chr. Koller. It is also found out that the concept of Bildung in this theory is characterized as not-normative. In this research, it is pointed out that one of the significant tasks of the contemporary BOB, which aims to get over difficulties of the traditional concept of Bildung, is to describe a non-dialectic figure of Bildung based on empirical life history interviews.

Free Research Field

教育哲学