Pedagogical Tact : Reconstruction of a Bodily Moment of the Pedagogical Relationship

• This chapter focuses on the normativity of being actively thoughtful in the immediacy of the moment, which is grasped by the concept of pedagogical tact. Pedagogical tact can be seen as the founding principle in the mediation between theory and practice in expressing “what we, as the older generation, actually want from the younger”. Ever since Kant and Herbart, pedagogical tact describes improvisational “quick judgment and decision” as a keen sense of what to do or say in order to initiate and maintain an encouraging pedagogical relationship with a child. We explain pedagogical tact as the corporeal social awareness and capacity, by which offense, defensiveness, or power games in a teaching framework can be avoided.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Ethics of pedagogy

Body-phenomenological approach

Pedagogical judgment

Power relations

Educational Science

pedagogik med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap

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