Critical Educational Science

Christoph Wulf
Critical Educational Science

Breaking clearly with the traditions of humanist and empirical pedagogics, another current in the educational science developed out of the paradigm of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt school.....

What this must establish is the interdependence between the educational system itself and the structure of society.......
According to Mollenhauer, an interest in emancipation, which must be the orientation of educational action, is at the centre of a critical educational science. To the extent that the Critical Theory of education heads to­ wards this objective, it must use the procedures of ideological criticism to determine, in a concrete case, what the emancipatory interest of the educational intervention is, and what strategies are congruent to achieve it.....