Insights – Perspectives – Outlooks

A brief overview of key topics in Existential Pedagogy:        

General and personal values, dealing with value conflicts, value education, wishing and willing, invitations of life and personal response, presence and perfectionism, success and failure in education and teaching, duty and meaning, functionality and personal relatedness, self-realization and realization of values, openness and capacity for dialogue, encounter and (phenomenological) understanding, educational needs and educational aims, disposition – environment – person, potentiality, education between freedom and boundaries, authoritarian, partnership-oriented, and existential styles of education, laissez-faire, prohibition, reproach, logical consequence, punishment, praise and reward, indulgence and neglect, education toward conformity, dealing with challenging behaviour, person and group, a mistake-friendly climate and the understanding of achievement, assessment of performance and self-evaluation, cooperation with parents, and more.